Full system update.

2012-10-25 Thread Ashkan Rahmani
Hi, How I can update system completely some thing like apt-get dist-upgrade in Debian? --- Best Regards, Ashkan R ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Full system update.

2012-10-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 25/10/2012 20:19, Ashkan Rahmani wrote: How I can update system completely some thing like apt-get dist-upgrade in Debian? You can't. With FreeBSD it's always a two step thing, because it has the distinction between the base system and ported software. You probably want freebsd-update(8)

Re: Full system update.

2012-10-25 Thread Alexandr Alexeev
The closest equivalent of `sudo apt-get dist-upgrade` in FreeBSD is `pkg_upgrade -a`. This tool is a part of bsdadminscripts package. If you also wanted to upgrade a kernel, look at freebsd-update. But don't forget that in FreeBSD all is not so simple like in Debian. You have to monitor

GEOM after system update

2011-10-24 Thread Sergei Vyshenski
Hi, Is it safe to ignore a sting in gmesg: GEOM: ad10s1: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s). This appeared after system update 7.4-stable -- 8.2-stable. Everything seems to work fine, but disklabel ad10s1 is anxious too: disklabel: partition c doesn't cover the whole unit

Re: GEOM after system update

2011-10-24 Thread Michael Sierchio
,63s != 16h,63s). This appeared after system update 7.4-stable -- 8.2-stable. Everything seems to work fine, but disklabel ad10s1 is anxious too: disklabel: partition c doesn't cover the whole unit! disklabel: An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system utilities Despite

Re: FreeBSD system update killing PostFix links?

2005-04-17 Thread Mike Woods
Tim Hogan wrote: I have recently done a system update to address some security issues and discovered that during the update the soft links in my /usr/sbin directory were re-written back to the system defaults. I believe that I have changed the mailq, sendmail, and newaliases soft links back

Re: FreeBSD system update killing PostFix links?

2005-04-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-04-16 21:10, Tim Hogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have recently done a system update to address some security issues and discovered that during the update the soft links in my /usr/sbin directory were re-written back to the system defaults. I believe that I have changed the mailq

Re: FreeBSD system update killing PostFix links?

2005-04-17 Thread Tim Hogan
Mike Woods wrote: Tim Hogan wrote: I have recently done a system update to address some security issues and discovered that during the update the soft links in my /usr/sbin directory were re-written back to the system defaults. I believe that I have changed the mailq, sendmail, and newaliases

Re: FreeBSD system update killing PostFix links?

2005-04-17 Thread Tim Hogan
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-04-16 21:10, Tim Hogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have recently done a system update to address some security issues and discovered that during the update the soft links in my /usr/sbin directory were re-written back to the system defaults. I believe that I

Re: FreeBSD system update killing PostFix links?

2005-04-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-04-17 06:19, Tim Hogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I edited the /etc/mail/mailer.conf before I did the last update and it did not seem to work. I think that I will try the NO_SENDMAIL option in the make.conf file and see what happens. One question though, the NO_MAILWRAPPER option will

FreeBSD system update killing PostFix links?

2005-04-16 Thread Tim Hogan
I have recently done a system update to address some security issues and discovered that during the update the soft links in my /usr/sbin directory were re-written back to the system defaults. I believe that I have changed the mailq, sendmail, and newaliases soft links back to what they should

System update

2005-01-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I have serveral questions about the update procedure. 1) starting from 4.10 RELEASE I have cvsup-ed to 4.10 RELENG. Now what is the command to build FreeBSD? The hand book says do not use make world, but use make buildworld, and look at /usr/src/UPDATING first. But in /usr/src/UPDATING it

Re: System update

2005-01-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 08:34:22AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I have serveral questions about the update procedure. 1) starting from 4.10 RELEASE I have cvsup-ed to 4.10 RELENG. Now what is the command to build FreeBSD? The hand book says do not use make world, but use make

Re: System update

2005-01-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
Where does it say that? I see only comments in passing about 'make world', but the explicit directions on how to update (correctly) mention the separate buildworld/installworld steps. Around line 490 of /usr/src/UPDATING (version 4.10-p5) it reads: To rebuild everything

Re: System update

2005-01-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 08:55:27AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: Where does it say that? I see only comments in passing about 'make world', but the explicit directions on how to update (correctly) mention the separate buildworld/installworld steps. Around line 490 of /usr/src/UPDATING

RE: Core System Update

2004-09-21 Thread Kenneth A. Bond
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Core System Update Kenneth A. Bond wrote: Hello, I am trying to determine how often to update my systems. Currently I am using anoncvs in order to synch my source. From there I run the typical # make buildworld # make buildkernel # make

Core System Update

2004-09-20 Thread Kenneth A. Bond
this when a security vulnerability is found? I am trying to achieve maximum uptime for these systems and want to confirm how often I should perform a core system update. Please advise. Thank you in advance for your assistance. Computers are like Air Conditioners: They stop working properly

Re: Core System Update

2004-09-20 Thread Bill Moran
installworld# mergemaster# reboot Should I only perform this when a security vulnerability is found? I am trying to achieve maximum uptime for these systems and want to confirm how often I should perform a core system update. Please wrap you lines aroun 72 chars. See http://www.lemis.com

RE: Core System Update

2004-09-20 Thread Haulmark, Chris
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Moran Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 1:31 PM To: Kenneth A. Bond Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Core System Update Kenneth A. Bond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am trying

system update

2002-10-01 Thread Brian Henning
Hello- what is the differnece between these two files? standard-supfile stable-supfile in what situation would one cvsup one or the other? the other question i have is what are the differnence between these two processes: config GENERIC cd ../../compile/GENERIC make depend; make; make

Re: system update

2002-10-01 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi! the other question i have is what are the differnence between these two processes: config GENERIC cd ../../compile/GENERIC make depend; make; make install This is what you would do if you want to re-compile the generic kernel. Since the generic kernel is already on your system, doing

Re: system update

2002-10-01 Thread Kevin Oberman
From: Toomas Aas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 20:03:28 +0300 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! the other question i have is what are the differnence between these two processes: config GENERIC cd ../../compile/GENERIC make depend; make; make install This is what you