Re: Install from CVS?

2007-01-15 Thread Jay Chandler
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 15, 2007, at 4:11 PM, Jay Chandler wrote: Is it possible to install (instead of upgrading) FreeBSD from my local CVS repository? Looking to find a good way to automate installations, and figured I'd start there. Sure, it's possible. You'd have to build a working

Re: Documenting a ports depedency tree?

2007-01-15 Thread Jay Chandler
stan wrote: Is there a way to document the entire depedency tree for a given port? EG, if a dpends on b which depends on d e, which in turn depend on z, I'd like to print out this dependency list. A good question, which I've taken the liberty of researching. montreal# cd

Re: Documenting a ports depedency tree?

2007-01-15 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 15), stan said: Is there a way to document the entire depedency tree for a given port? EG, if a dpends on b which depends on d e, which in turn depend on z, I'd like to print out this dependency list. cd into the port's directory and run make all-depends-list.

Re: DNS Resolver Problem

2007-01-15 Thread Bob McIsaac
linux quest wrote: I have a problem with the DNS setting in FreeBSD. Every 1 hour, I will not be able to ping google.com (because I need to type in my ISP's DNS into /etc/resolv.conf) May I know what is the best solution for this, so that I do not have to type in my ISP's DNS to the resolver all

Re: DNS Resolver Problem

2007-01-15 Thread linux quest
Dear Jay The FreeBSD Communities, Thanks for putting your time and patience to help me out. Anyway, I tried it out, both changing the rc.conf and the dhclient.conf (one at a time). After that (for both of the ways), I did manage to stop the resolv.conf from being overwritten after the PC

FreeBSD challenged by Internet

2007-01-15 Thread Bob McIsaac
Hi: This is not exactly a question rather it is wrapup for a series of questions. I had a tricky, confusing problem getting FreeBSD on the net but I was able to solve it with help from this list.. Ian Smith in particular. The DHCP lease from my ISP set the nameserver address as being

Re: DNS Resolver Problem

2007-01-15 Thread Bob McIsaac
linux quest wrote: Dear Jay The FreeBSD Communities, Thanks for putting your time and patience to help me out. Anyway, I tried it out, both changing the rc.conf and the dhclient.conf (one at a time). After that (for both of the ways), I did manage to stop the resolv.conf from being

How about a Start-Up Script that execute every 30 minutes for resolv.conf???

2007-01-15 Thread linux quest
Dear Jay The FreeBSD Communities, Thanks for putting your time and patience to help me out. Anyway, I tried it out, both changing the rc.conf and the dhclient.conf (one at a time). After that (for both of the ways), I did manage to stop the resolv.conf from being overwritten after the PC

Re: How about a Start-Up Script that execute every 30 minutes for resolv.conf???

2007-01-15 Thread George Vanev
If you really want to copy resolv.conf from /root to /etc every 30 min you don't need a startup script. Just add the following line in /etc/crontab: */30 * * * * rootcp /root/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf I don't know what exactly are you trying to do, but this is

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