Re: updating pkgdb results invalid argument

Are you sure you don't mean to do: # pkgdb -fu Lapo On Dec 15, 2004, at 10:21 PM, Noah wrote: FreeBSD-4.9 any clues why this is happening? the update of the package DB ends off with invalid argument. --- snip # pkgdb -Fu --- Updating the pkgdb Invalid argument snip --- cheers, Noah

Re: php4 install has conflicts

On Dec 15, 2004, at 12:15 PM, Noah wrote: do you know of a command that can show me all the ports that are installed on my machine? is there a nice tutorial that explains how to use the ports efficiently and safetly? cheers, Noah If reading man 7 ports leaves you wanting, you might want to

Gvinum and swap partitions

I recently converted a vinum boot mirror to gvinum on a FreeBSD STABLE box. The mirror was initially setup using the information on Greg Lehey's The Complete Freebsd book, resulting in everything being mirrored on my boot drive, including the swap partition. While trying to get up to speed

Re: portupgrade perl and openwebmail

If you have just gone from a 5.8.1 version of Perl to the current 5.8.5, you are probably running into the following: (From the Openwebmail README file at http://www.openwebmail.org/openwebmail/doc/readme.txt ) If you are using FreeBSD and your perl is compiled from port, then please note