What now ? - 4.4-4.8 Binary upgrade has left machine broken

2003-09-13 Thread Richard Shea
to retrieve the situation. Anyone got any suggestions ? Thanks Richard Shea. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Possible ? - clean install but preserve one filesystem ?

2003-09-13 Thread Richard Shea
I could re-install from scratch and only once the install was complete would I then tell FreeBSD about the IDE drive ? It's a long time since I did a clean install and I've sort of forgotten the degree to which FreeBSD probes for disks. Thanks Richard Shea

What now ? [second thoughts ] - 4.4-4.8 Binary upgrade has left machine broken

2003-09-13 Thread Richard Shea
' what it needed to from the previous setup. Was this the wrong thing to do ? Should I have dived in and done the whole kernel config thing even though the machine had previously been running 4.4 ? Thanks Richard Shea. The Cuba Group PO

pkg_delete PERL ?

2003-09-13 Thread Richard Shea
pkg_info it's not in there - is it build deeper into BSD than that ? thanks for any help and here goes with that listing richard shea ===[root] / # locate CPAN /root/.cpan/CPAN /root/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm /root/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm.000 /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/CPAN /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503

Replacing drive with root file system on

2003-10-24 Thread Richard Shea
, larget drive, with root on it ... would that work ? Can anyone fill in the details ? It it wouldn't work can anyone suggset an alternative bearing in in mind I can only have two drives and the largest each can be is 8Gb (old BIOS). regards richard shea

JDK 'make install' - puzzling error message

2003-10-27 Thread Richard Shea
for what I've downloaded ? Any help would appreciated. thanks richard shea. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: JDK 'make install' - puzzling error message

2003-10-28 Thread Richard Shea
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:18:25 -0800, Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Monday 27 October 2003 05:52 pm, Richard Shea wrote: Hi - I've just gone to ... http://java.sun.com/webapps/download/Display?BundleId=7479 ... to download the JDK and put it into ports/distfiles. However when I

Re: JDK 'make install' - puzzling error message

2003-10-28 Thread Richard Shea
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 02:45:08 -0800, Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tuesday 28 October 2003 02:34 am, Richard Shea wrote: On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:18:25 -0800, Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Monday 27 October 2003 05:52 pm, Richard Shea wrote: Hi - I've just gone

Example of 'normal' cvsup-ports session ?

2003-11-10 Thread Richard Shea
Could you anyone send me the output from a normal (ie succesful) cvsup-ports session ? I keep getting 'killed' appearing (what I think is) half-way through and I'm beginning to wonder if that's normal - ie is that just cvsup's way of saying 'I'm finished - goodbye' ? Here's an example - does it

Re: Example of 'normal' cvsup-ports session ?

2003-11-10 Thread Richard Shea
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 23:26:37 -0800, Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sunday 09 November 2003 10:56 pm, Richard Shea wrote: Could you anyone send me the output from a normal (ie succesful) cvsup-ports session ? I keep getting 'killed' appearing (what I think is) half-way through

Re: Example of 'normal' cvsup-ports session ?

2003-11-10 Thread Richard Shea
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 23:26:37 -0800, Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sunday 09 November 2003 10:56 pm, Richard Shea wrote: Could you anyone send me the output from a normal (ie succesful) cvsup-ports session ? I keep getting 'killed' appearing (what I think is) half-way through

Re: sendmail_enable=NO /YES/MAYBE ?

2003-08-12 Thread Richard Shea
Thanks to both of you for your replies however this has raised another question ! ... (see below) On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:16:54 +0200, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Konrad Heuer wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Richard Shea wrote: [Original Question snipped] Yes

RE: sendmail_enable=NO /YES/MAYBE ?

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Shea
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 09:57:43 -0700, Brent Wiese [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi - I currently have sendmail_enable=NO in my rc.conf file. This allows emails to be sent from the FBSD machine however I would like one other machine on the LAN to use the FBSD machine as a SMTP machine. I

cvsupit - file system 105% - what have I done ?

2002-11-22 Thread Richard Shea
directory ? The other thing is that I really only wanted to upgrade from 4.4 to 4.5 initially but RELENG_4 was the nearest I got to being asked what release I was after - was there something I missed there ? Any info would be welcome. regards richard shea. ps : The CVSUP file which CVSUPIT created

Re: cvsupit - file system 105% - what have I done ?

2002-11-22 Thread Richard Shea
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 18:01:20 +1300, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 05:38:26PM +1300, Richard Shea wrote: Hi - Thanks for your reply ... [...] Well I answered a few questions, pressed the button and the process commenced 'checking out' hundreds of files. I

Re: cvsupit - file system 105% - what have I done ?

2002-11-23 Thread Richard Shea
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 06:30:00 +0100, Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 05:38:26PM +1300, Richard Shea wrote: Hi - For the first time ever I have tried to upgrade a FreeBSD by using CVS. In fact I used CVSUPIT. I'm on 4.4-RELEASE and I just wanted to move up

Re: cvsupit - file system 105% - what have I done ?

2002-11-23 Thread Richard Shea
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 21:14:49 +1300, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 08:50:36PM +1300, Richard Shea wrote: On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 18:01:20 +1300, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [...] If you intend on just upgrading your system sources, you don't need

Mail vs SMTP [newbieish tendencies]

2003-03-05 Thread Richard Shea
. If I can use 'Mail' to send emails does this imply that the FreeBSD box is running a SMTP server which could send mail on behalf of clients (within the LAN)? Thanks Richard Shea. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

checkouts.cvs - looking inside it ?

2003-03-05 Thread Richard Shea
could be sure of what I've got. I've found a checkouts.cvs:RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE but is there some sort of 'higher level' log which would indicate what was done ? I realise that in theory I could reverse engineer this from the checkouts.cvs but it's one big file ... thanks richard shea

CVSUPIT pkg_add 90% good/10% strange

2003-12-08 Thread Richard Shea
all gone fine - can anyone explain what's happening ? regards richard shea. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CVSUPIT pkg_add 90% good/10% strange

2003-12-08 Thread Richard Shea
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 14:53:33 -0800, Chris Pressey [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 11:39:13 +1300 Richard Shea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi - I've just installed 4.8 from scatch. The next thing I wanted to do was to CVSUP so I ... cd /usr/ports/net/cvsupit make install

Re: CVSUPIT pkg_add 90% good/10% strange

2003-12-08 Thread Richard Shea
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 15:40:39 -0800, Chris Pressey [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 12:00:15 +1300 Richard Shea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 14:53:33 -0800, Chris Pressey [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 11:39:13 +1300 Richard Shea [EMAIL PROTECTED

/usr/ports/java/jdk13 - make all dumps - any suggestions ?

2003-12-11 Thread Richard Shea
Hi - I'm trying to get the JDK working on FreeBSD 4.8. I have CVSUP'd the ports tree and am following the instructions on http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3558 (for which I'm grateful !). My current problem is that when I do make all install clean in /usr/ports/java/jdk13 we get to a

Re: CVSUPIT pkg_add 90% good/10% strange

2003-12-11 Thread Richard Shea
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 10:41:50 -0800, Chris Pressey [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 15:14:38 +1300 Richard Shea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 15:40:39 -0800, Chris Pressey [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 12:00:15 +1300 Richard Shea [EMAIL

Removing Java ?

2003-12-12 Thread Richard Shea
says 'illegal instruction'. So my question is what's the best way to clean every trace of Java from the box so I can start again and (maybe) get further this time ? thanks richard shea. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman