Simon Striker wrote:
Hi!
I am pretty newby to FreeBSD and I have one question. I have some Linux
(Slackware) servers and I intend to reinstall them with FreeBSD.
When I will have to upgrade something on them, I will do that with portupgrade.
But when yesterday FreeBSD 5.4 released I wondered how
Hi,
Simple question: how can I tell what version of the system binaries I'm
running? Flame-proofing follows.
Searches on this mailing list and google tell me 'uname -a' is the
ticket, but that doesn't seem to get what I want. Here's the testing
I've done.
* Install 5.3 from cd on two
Adam Smith wrote:
Hi,
In a particular network scenario we have, swapping an ethernet link between
two FreeBSD machines using the same IP and a different MAC is proving to be
a problem.
We have discovered that in order to make this work we will need to enable
gratuitous ARP. Does anyone know how
Hi,
I've installed FreeBSD 5.3 using the minimum install option, and would
like to immediately install the ports collection. What I've done in the
past is sysinstall via ftp and then CVSup to update. Is that insane?
Can I just CVSup and forget about the sysinstall? Is one method quicker
Nick Pavlica wrote:
Chris,
I alway install the ports that I want during my initial installation
so I'm not sure what the best post installation method is. I would
venture to say that cvsup would be you best bet.
--Nick
My goal is to have the latest ports, regardless of which ones I actually
Hi,
Long story made short: The mysql-server.sh that came with
mysql-server-4.1.10a (installed from cvsup'ed ports) wouldn't work until
after I rebooted the server. It's working now, so I know I shouldn't
complain, but anyone know what happened?
Long story:
1. Minimum installation, added
