Well,
I understand your concern. I've been using the freebsd-update method
since several years now and mostly remotely. I've never encounter a
problem. I haven't recompiled everything many times as I didn't really
found a tangible advantage in this method but I've never thought about
this. I
For some reason my email hasn't apparently been delivered so I'm re-sending it.
From: ASV a...@inhio.eu
To: Jose Garcia Juanino jjuan...@gmail.com
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:Re: Newbie question about freebsd-update: single user mode is
not needed anymore?
Date
Hi Jose,
with the freebsd-update method you don't need to pass through the make
installworld as it's a binary patch/upgrade system.
Using freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RELEASE for example allows you to
get your system patched directly without recompiling the kernel and the
userland but getting
El lunes 31 de diciembre a las 16:27:44 CET, ASV escribió:
Hi Jose,
with the freebsd-update method you don't need to pass through the make
installworld as it's a binary patch/upgrade system.
Using freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RELEASE for example allows you to
get your system patched
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:21:31 -0500, Dan Lists wrote:
The syntax of his crontab file is correct. Vixie cron does care about
leading spaces, tabs, extra spaces, or leading zeros. Earlier versions
of cron are much pickier about the crontab file. The cron logs show
that it is starting his
On 6/13/2012 6:23 PM, Walter Hurry wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:21:31 -0500, Dan Lists wrote:
The syntax of his crontab file is correct. Vixie cron does care about
leading spaces, tabs, extra spaces, or leading zeros. Earlier versions
of cron are much pickier about the crontab file. The
On 11/06/2012 23:10, Michael Sierchio wrote:
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote:
As the subject says, this is probably a newbie question (I am new to
FreeBSD but quite experienced at Linux).
FreeBSD9 on x86_64.
Cron is running:
$ ps -ax|grep cron
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:06:21 -0500, Robert Bonomi
bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote:
Comment: using a leading zero on the numeric fields is a BAD IDEA(tm) --
you
are *strongly* encocuraged to remove them. Yes, that means numbers will
not
be column aligned, but it is a small price to pay to
Mark Felder f...@feld.me writes:
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:06:21 -0500, Robert Bonomi
bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote:
Comment: using a leading zero on the numeric fields is a BAD IDEA(tm) --
you
are *strongly* encocuraged to remove them. Yes, that means numbers
will not
be column aligned,
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:36:37 -0500, Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote:
I don't have ready access to source at the moment, but I would expect
(like the normal C I/O functions) it will be interpreted as octal.
Suppose we could always ask Paul Vixie :-)
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:29:02 -0500, Mark Felder wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:06:21 -0500, Robert Bonomi
bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote:
Comment: using a leading zero on the numeric fields is a BAD IDEA(tm) --
you
are *strongly* encocuraged to remove them. Yes, that means numbers
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:29:02 -0500, Mark Felder wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:06:21 -0500, Robert Bonomi
bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote:
Comment: using a leading zero on the numeric fields is a BAD IDEA(tm) --
you
are
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote:
As the subject says, this is probably a newbie question (I am new to
FreeBSD but quite experienced at Linux).
FreeBSD9 on x86_64.
Cron is running:
$ ps -ax|grep cron
1513 ?? Is 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/cron -s
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:10:21 -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote:
Have you installed bash? It's not in the system base.
What's in your shell scripts?
Thanks for the quick response.
$ pkg_info|grep bash
bash-4.2.28 The GNU Project's Bourne Again SHell
$ which bash
/bin/bash
$
$ less
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote:
cat /etc/shells
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On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:21:12 -0500, Adam Vande More wrote:
You really have bash in /bin ? Are your scripts executable? What does
/var/log/cron say?
$ file /bin/bash
/bin/bash: symbolic link to `/usr/local/bin/bash'
$ sudo tail -50 /var/log/cron (result snipped at 02:22:00 for brevity)
Jun
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:36:28 -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote:
cat /etc/shells
$ cat /etc/shells
# $FreeBSD: release/9.0.0/etc/shells 59717 2000-04-27 21:58:46Z ache $
#
# List of acceptable shells for chpass(1).
# Ftpd will not allow users to connect who are not using
# one of these shells.
On 6/11/2012 9:25 PM, Walter Hurry wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:10:21 -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote:
Have you installed bash? It's not in the system base.
What's in your shell scripts?
Thanks for the quick response.
$ pkg_info|grep bash
bash-4.2.28 The GNU Project's Bourne
Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote:
As the subject says, this is probably a newbie question (I am new to
FreeBSD but quite experienced at Linux).
FreeBSD9 on x86_64.
Cron is running:
$ ps -ax|grep cron
1513 ?? Is 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/cron -s
2283 0 S+ 0:00.00 grep
Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote:
... it was the _initials_ of the name 'visual iinterace
to ed(1).
To ed(1), or to ex(1)? (ed(1) being the older -- and by a
considerable margin the lighter, which is why we even now keep
it in /bin where it does not depend on /usr being mounted.)
From: Janos Dohanics w...@3dresearch.com
To: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Mon, May 9, 2011 1:06:31 AM
Subject: Re: Newbie Needing Help
On Sun, 8 May 2011 17:17:48 -0700
John or Judy Hixson johnorj...@earthlink.net wrote
On Sun, 8 May 2011 22:13:16 -0400
Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote:
The first need to change is your Windoze vocabulary, so the command
line is called a shell. Next you will need to eventually master a
text editor. The are literally hundreds of text-editor in the Unix
world but there are
On Sun, 08 May 2011 19:49:55, Noel noeld...@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/8/2011 7:17 PM, John or Judy Hixson wrote:
(Clip)
I'm trying to learn some FreeBSD in anticipation of eventually admining a
FBSD server for my church office network. I've installed FreeBSD 7.4 on an
old PC and am
On Mon, 9 May 2011 15:04:36 +0100, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote:
There's also ee in the base system, which is good enough for editing
configuration files, and is much easier for a casual user. The benefits
of vi and emacs are mostly for developers.
I'd like to mention the Midnight
On Mon, 9 May 2011 10:35:54 -0700, John or Judy Hixson
johnorj...@earthlink.net wrote:
Actually I'm using 7.4 because that's the latest version Lucas'
book covers and I learn better with a book in my hand. When I'm
ready to actually use FBSD, I'll get going with the latest
production release.
John or Judy Hixson writes:
Actually I'm using 7.4 because that's the latest version Lucas'
book covers and I learn better with a book in my hand. When I'm
ready to actually use FBSD, I'll get going with the latest
production release.
At the level you're (probably) operating,
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 03:04:36PM +0100, RW wrote:
There's also ee in the base system, which is good enough for editing
configuration files, and is much easier for a casual user. The benefits
of vi and emacs are mostly for developers.
It's not just for software development. I use Vim for
There's also ee in the base system, which is good enough for editing
configuration files, and is much easier for a casual user. The benefits
of vi and emacs are mostly for developers.
It's not just for software development. I use Vim for writing code, but
I also use it for writing in
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 03:44:57PM -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote:
There's also ee in the base system, which is good enough for editing
configuration files, and is much easier for a casual user. The benefits
of vi and emacs are mostly for developers.
It's not just for software
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 03:44:57PM -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote:
There's also ee in the base system, which is good enough for editing
configuration files, and is much easier for a casual user. The benefits
of vi and emacs are mostly for developers.
It's not just for software
Quoth Chad Perrin on Monday, 09 May 2011:
By the way, I remember a quote:
Hello. My $NAME is ~inigo-montoya. You killed my process. Prepare
to vi. --The Unix's Bride
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 02:55:22PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
That joke is hilarious. Pedantically speaking, though, it has a small
problem: vi is pronounced like vee eye, not like the word vie.
--
Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
for(;;)
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon May 9 16:16:48 2011
Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 14:15:49 -0700
From: Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Newbie Needing Help
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On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 02:55:22PM -0600, Chad
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon May 9 18:16:11 2011
From: Ricardo Cuevas Camarena rcue...@nic.mx
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 17:59:04 -0500
Subject: RE: Newbie Needing Help
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2011
From: Ricardo Cuevas Camarena rcue...@nic.mx
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 17:59:04 -0500
Subject: RE: Newbie Needing Help
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questi
Quoth John or Judy Hixson on Sunday, 08 May 2011:
At the risk of being told to get out of here and never come back (until you
know enough to not need to come back), I need help on some very elementary
stuff. I haven't found anywhere else to ask these questions and am therefore
taking my
--As of May 8, 2011 5:45:55 PM -0700, Chip Camden is alleged to have said:
For viewing or editing a file, what you want is a text editor. I use
vim, but it really isn't designed for beginners. Whatever editor you
decide to use, I would advise reading up on it before jumping into text
files.
On 5/8/2011 7:17 PM, John or Judy Hixson wrote:
At the risk of being told to get out of here and never come back (until you
know enough to not need to come back), I need help on some very elementary
stuff. I haven't found anywhere else to ask these questions and am therefore
taking my
On 5/8/11 8:17 PM, John or Judy Hixson wrote:
At the risk of being told to get out of here and never come back (until you
know enough to not need to come back), I need help on some very elementary
stuff. I haven't found anywhere else to ask these questions and am therefore
taking my
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 8:17 PM, John or Judy Hixson
johnorj...@earthlink.net wrote:
At the risk of being told to get out of here and never come back (until you
know enough to not need to come back), I need help on some very elementary
stuff. I haven't found anywhere else to ask these
On Sun, 8 May 2011 17:17:48 -0700
John or Judy Hixson johnorj...@earthlink.net wrote:
[...]
Another problem that's throwing me for a loop is that even though I'm
logged in as root I'm getting a permission denied return when I
list a file (e.g. /etc/fstab) and press enter.
When you enter a
On Sunday 17 January 2010, Matthew Seaman wrote:
However, one of the really amazingly brilliant things about geom is
that just about any disk / storage related thing can be a geom
provider, and geom constructs will nest very happily. Here's a howto
for setting up gmirror across a pair of
Does gmirror consider one of the consumers to act as a master for the pair?
No. The order doesn't matter. You could take out your hard drives and
shuffle them like cards and it wouldn't matter. All metadata is stored
in the last sector of the drives themselves. Cable order is
irrelevant.
On Sunday 17 January 2010, Matthew Seaman wrote:
However, one of the really amazingly brilliant things about geom is
that just about any disk / storage related thing can be a geom
provider, and geom constructs will nest very happily. Here's a howto
for setting up gmirror across a pair of
On Saturday 16 January 2010, Pieter de Goeje wrote:
On Saturday 16 January 2010 00:34:52 Mike Clarke wrote:
I'm about to upgrade to more disk space and I'm tempted use this as
an opportunity to get two disks and implement gmirror. Before I go
ahead there's a few aspects of mirroring I'm
Mike Clarke wrote:
Actually I was more concerned about what happens when I boot into
another OS like Windows or Linux on one of the spare slices - I'm
assuming that I have to apply gmirror to the whole disk rather than
just selected slices?
You can't do this. gmirror is FreeBSD specific,
On Sunday 17 January 2010, Matthew Seaman wrote:
Mike Clarke wrote:
Actually I was more concerned about what happens when I boot into
another OS like Windows or Linux on one of the spare slices - I'm
assuming that I have to apply gmirror to the whole disk rather than
just selected
Mike Clarke wrote:
On Sunday 17 January 2010, Matthew Seaman wrote:
Mike Clarke wrote:
Actually I was more concerned about what happens when I boot into
another OS like Windows or Linux on one of the spare slices - I'm
assuming that I have to apply gmirror to the whole disk rather than
just
On 17.01.2010 19:18, Matthew Seaman wrote:
Mike Clarke wrote:
Actually I was more concerned about what happens when I boot into
another OS like Windows or Linux on one of the spare slices - I'm
assuming that I have to apply gmirror to the whole disk rather than
just selected slices?
You
On Saturday 16 January 2010 00:34:52 Mike Clarke wrote:
I'm about to upgrade to more disk space and I'm tempted use this as an
opportunity to get two disks and implement gmirror. Before I go ahead
there's a few aspects of mirroring I'm not sure about and would
appreciate some advice.
I'm
Thanks to all for your detailed and informative replies to my questions. I
have many new things to try out.
I can't speak for anyone else, but long posts don't bother me. I hope
we've clarified things for you. Welcome to FreeBSD!
Thanks. Its good to be here!
-Richard
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Richard Mace mac...@telkomsa.net wrote:
I recently installed FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE on my home desktop and am
considering
making the switch from Debian GNU/Linux.
I have a few questions which I am hoping the list can clarify for me.
1.) Keeping installed
On Thu, 3 Dec 2009, Richard Mace wrote:
I recently installed FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE on my home desktop and am considering
making the switch from Debian GNU/Linux.
I have a few questions which I am hoping the list can clarify for me.
1.) Keeping installed ports/packages up to date.
As far as I
2009/12/3 Richard Mace mac...@telkomsa.net:
1.) Keeping installed ports/packages up to date.
As far as I can tell from the docs, perhaps the most convenient method is to
use something like:
# portsnap fetch update
# pkgdb -F
# portupgrade --batch -aP (do I need an R here?)
I don't
S4mmael wrote:
2009/12/3 Richard Mace mac...@telkomsa.net:
1.) Keeping installed ports/packages up to date.
As far as I can tell from the docs, perhaps the most convenient method is to
use something like:
# portsnap fetch update
# pkgdb -F
# portupgrade --batch -aP (do I need an R
On Thu 03 Dec 2009 at 01:13:39 PST Richard Mace wrote:
I recently installed FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE on my home desktop and am considering
making the switch from Debian GNU/Linux.
I have a few questions which I am hoping the list can clarify for me.
1.) Keeping installed ports/packages up to date.
On Thu 03 Dec 2009 at 07:32:33 PST Warren Block wrote:
As far as batch or even -a, I update the ports tree often and prefer
to manually upgrade ports as needed, usually with portupgrade -r. A
lot of people seem to like -R; maybe I have the dependencies backwards.
Since this is a newbie
--On Monday, August 24, 2009 15:45:16 -0500 John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com
wrote:
2. DJB Daemontools: http://thedjbway.org/daemontools.html
[snip]
Anyway, I dimly remembered this and dug into the DJB docs. Some will
wonder why I found it easier to read a DJB doc than to read how to
write
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:16:45 -0500, Manolis Kiagias
sonic200...@gmail.com wrote:
As a side note, I have a machine specifically for building packages and
it just happens that I finished a complete build run today (for FreeBSD
7.1 32bit). This includes XFCE, Xorg, Gnome + power tools + fifth
Thomas W. Holloway wrote:
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:16:45 -0500, Manolis Kiagias
sonic200...@gmail.com wrote:
As a side note, I have a machine specifically for building packages and
it just happens that I finished a complete build run today (for FreeBSD
7.1 32bit). This includes XFCE, Xorg,
Thomas W. Holloway wrote:
Greetings from newbie land.
I have what I hope is a simple question about using packages offline,
with particular reference to XFCE if that matters. I am not so much
asking how do I do this? as I am Do I understand this correctly?
I have read the appropriate
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:16:45 +0200, Manolis Kiagias sonic200...@gmail.com
wrote:
In short, yes. And this will be quite difficult to get right. *Unless*
the machine you actually use to get the packages is also running
FreeBSD. You could then pkg_add -r xfce4 on it and then recreate all
Thomas W. Holloway schrieb:
I would like to install XFCE on a FreeBSD 7.1 box that is and will
remain (for now) offline. No network connection at all. If I have read
correctly, this means downloading the appropriate package(s) and using
pkg_add. So far, so good (I haven't done it, but it
Zhang Weiwu zhangwe...@realss.com writes:
Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Have you checked what happens if you disable your APIC?
You mean ACPI?
No, I meant the APIC, the interrupt controller. But I don't think you
can do that without compiling a special kernel for it, so it may not be
worth
On 1/10/09, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote:
Zhang Weiwu zhangwe...@realss.com writes:
Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Have you checked what happens if you disable your APIC?
You mean ACPI?
No, I meant the APIC, the interrupt controller. But I don't think you
can do
Zhang Weiwu zhangwe...@realss.com writes:
Hello. I come across device.hints manual which says I can set irq for
each device there. I am using 6.1.
Kind of old now. I don't know specifically of any reason that would
matter, but for several reasons I wouldn't be at all surprised.
The settings
Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Zhang Weiwu zhangwe...@realss.com writes:
That's strange, I didn't find manual where it say it work in some
condition or for some device only.
Consult individual device drivers' manual pages for available keywords
and their possible values.
Thanks. I
Gary Hartl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've been out of the bsd loop for a bit, i'm trying to setup nagios which is
fine
There are a couple of settings that I either don't remember or never
remembered and forgot that I never knew it.
Ok so nagios is asking me for an rc.d path, which
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Gary Hartl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all;
Quick newbie question.
I've been out of the bsd loop for a bit, i'm trying to setup nagios which
is
fine
There are a couple of settings that I either don't remember or never
remembered and forgot that I
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Steven Susbauer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ports-mgmt/portupgrade is a useful tool for easily getting packages and
ports, it includes the tool portinstall which does what it says it does.
By running portinstall -P pkgname, it will install a port and
dependencies
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 11:14 +0800, Canhua wrote:
Hi, good day all. I am new to FreeBSD.
I tried to pkg_add -r a package (py-networkx), which tell me that:
Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/
FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.0-release/Latest/py-networkx.tbz:
File unavailable
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Thiago R. Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 11:14 +0800, Canhua wrote:
Hi, good day all. I am new to FreeBSD.
I tried to pkg_add -r a package (py-networkx), which tell me that:
Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 22:41 +0800, Canhua wrote:
Wonderful place~ thank you
However I could not pkg_add py25-networkx still, being told that
pkg_add: unable to fetch
'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.0-release/Latest/py25-networkx.tbz'
by URL
Oh, sorry. I
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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:12:52 +0800
From: Canhua [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Newbie question about pkg_add
To: Steven Susbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:14:34AM +0800, Canhua wrote:
Hi, good day all. I am new to FreeBSD.
I tried to pkg_add -r a package (py-networkx), which tell me that:
Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/
FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.0-release/Latest/py-networkx.tbz:
File
Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:14:34AM +0800, Canhua wrote:
Hi, good day all. I am new to FreeBSD.
I tried to pkg_add -r a package (py-networkx), which tell me that:
Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/
--On Tuesday, March 11, 2008 19:25:31 + Andy Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi People
l downloaded FreeBSD 6.3 the other day out of curiosity..
The installation started ok but it all went wrong when it came to connecting
to the internet through my wired router
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 07:25:31PM +, Andy Watts wrote:
l downloaded FreeBSD 6.3 the other day out of curiosity..
The installation started ok but it all went wrong when it came to
connecting to the internet through my wired router
Paul Schmehl presented these words - circa 3/11/08 1:02 PM-
--On Tuesday, March 11, 2008 19:25:31 + Andy Watts
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi People
l downloaded FreeBSD 6.3 the other day out of curiosity..
The installation started ok but it all went wrong when it came to
connecting
to
On Wednesday 12 March 2008 01:46:40 Patrick Mahan wrote:
Paul Schmehl presented these words - circa 3/11/08 1:02 PM-
--On Tuesday, March 11, 2008 19:25:31 + Andy Watts
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My router's address is 192.168.1.1 and running ifconfig on my linux
machine
gives the
Mel presented these words - circa 3/11/08 6:10 PM-
On Wednesday 12 March 2008 01:46:40 Patrick Mahan wrote:
Paul Schmehl presented these words - circa 3/11/08 1:02 PM-
--On Tuesday, March 11, 2008 19:25:31 + Andy Watts
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My router's address is 192.168.1.1 and
Hi,
let me give some very basic answers.
cothrige wrote:
ports system is completely separate from the OS itself, and that these
Applications have nothing to do with the operating system. In theory at
least.
Practically it is more limited.
can be upgraded or updated separately. From
On Friday 07 September 2007, Lars Eighner wrote:
2. Install cvsup from a package or the ports, but do not install any other
ports.
Isn't csup, a functional and faster equivalent to cvsup part of the base
system now?
--
Dave
___
Predrag Punosevac wrote:
I am not sure. I know that portsnap is the part of base package.
dgmm wrote:
On Friday 07 September 2007, Lars Eighner wrote:
2. Install cvsup from a package or the ports, but do not install
any other
ports.
Isn't csup, a functional and faster
Lars Eighner writes:
assumption that one must run two cvsup operations with two separate
supfiles to update both the core OS and the ports. Am I understanding
this correctly?
[deletia]
Many people do it it two operations because they really are two
different things.
Hi,
I can't answer all your questions, but will take a shot at a couple.
You should check out the handbook at:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html
and
http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/
For more complete information.
On Fri,
On 9/7/07, Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, cothrige wrote:
assumption that one must run two cvsup operations with two separate
supfiles to update both the core OS and the ports. Am I understanding
this correctly?
No. It is not must. You can update your source
That is the correct but I prefer to use portsnap for ports and keep
cvsup just for core OS!
Robert Huff wrote:
Lars Eighner writes:
assumption that one must run two cvsup operations with two separate
supfiles to update both the core OS and the ports. Am I understanding
this
cothrige [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sorry. What I really had in mind was the ports tree itself, which I
had an option during install to add. BTW, I answered yes to this and
so had that which was on the 6.2 install disc. Based on the other
responses, it is looking like perhaps that is not
On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 12:16:32 -0400
Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In general, the OS versions are managed so that anything that will
run in one version of a main branch will run in another. eg, if
it will run in 6.1, it should run in 6.2 and 6.3. But it may well
not work in 7.xx
I am not sure. I know that portsnap is the part of base package.
dgmm wrote:
On Friday 07 September 2007, Lars Eighner wrote:
2. Install cvsup from a package or the ports, but do not install any other
ports.
Isn't csup, a functional and faster equivalent to cvsup part of the
On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, cothrige wrote:
assumption that one must run two cvsup operations with two separate
supfiles to update both the core OS and the ports. Am I understanding
this correctly?
No. It is not must. You can update your source and your ports tree
with one supfile. You can add
On 9/7/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 10:53:09AM -0500, cothrige wrote:
Sorry. What I really had in mind was the ports tree itself, which I
had an option during install to add. BTW, I answered yes to this and
so had that which was on the 6.2 install
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 10:53:09AM -0500, cothrige wrote:
On 9/7/07, Erich Dollansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Howdy, and thanks for the help.
[snip]
I have downloaded the FreeBSD 6.2 install discs and have finished the
Just stick with 6.2 for the moment.
Wait, you do
On 9/7/07, Erich Dollansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Howdy, and thanks for the help.
[snip]
I have downloaded the FreeBSD 6.2 install discs and have finished the
Just stick with 6.2 for the moment.
I had thought this might be the best method, and so figured I would
for some time
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 12:26:40PM -0500, cothrige wrote:
On 9/7/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 10:53:09AM -0500, cothrige wrote:
Sorry. What I really had in mind was the ports tree itself, which I
had an option during install to add. BTW, I
On 21 May DSA - JCR wrote:
1.- Where can I found info about SSH configuration and connections?
Read the handbook.
2.- Is it possible to ssh connect to FBSD from a MS Windows system?
How? is any free programs outthere?
puTTY
--
Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE
++
DSA - JCR wrote:
Hi all
I am new to SSH and I like to connect to my FreeBSD 6.2 box with SSH in
order to test secure connections (remote or not).
1.- Where can I found info about SSH configuration and connections?
You can start here
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/openssh.html
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:38:15PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 11:26:03PM +0200, Oliver Peter wrote:
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:26:36PM -0400, Ian Lord wrote:
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