Re: Newbie question about freebsd-update: single user mode is not needed anymore?

2013-01-02 Thread ASV
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

Re: Newbie question about freebsd-update: single user mode is not needed anymore?

2013-01-02 Thread ASV
For some reason my email hasn't apparently been delivered so I'm re-sending it. "From: ASV To: Jose Garcia Juanino Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie question about freebsd-update: single user mode is not needed anymore? Date: Mon, 31 De

Re: Newbie question about freebsd-update: single user mode is not needed anymore?

2013-01-02 Thread ASV
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 believ

Re: Newbie question about freebsd-update: single user mode is not needed anymore?

2012-12-31 Thread Jose Garcia Juanino
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 patch

Re: Newbie question about freebsd-update: single user mode is not needed anymore?

2012-12-31 Thread Zyumbilev, Peter
On 31/12/2012 14:13, Jose Garcia Juanino wrote: > Hi, > > I am planning to upgrade from FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE to > FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE. With upgrade source method, it is always needed to > do the "make installworld" step in single user mode. But it seems to > be that single user is not required wi

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-13 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:16:18 -0500, Chris wrote: > 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 >>>

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-13 Thread Chris
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

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-13 Thread Walter Hurry
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

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-12 Thread Dan Lists
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:29:02 -0500, Mark Felder wrote: >> On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:06:21 -0500, Robert Bonomi >> wrote: >> >> > Comment: using a leading zero on the numeric fields is a BAD IDEA(tm) -- >> > you >> > are *strongly* encocuraged to

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-12 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:29:02 -0500, Mark Felder wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:06:21 -0500, Robert Bonomi > 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 > >

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-12 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:36:37 -0500, Lowell Gilbert 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 :-) ___ freeb

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mark Felder writes: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:06:21 -0500, Robert Bonomi > 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

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-12 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:06:21 -0500, Robert Bonomi 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 avoid the hair-tearing

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-12 Thread Ramiro Caso
On 11/06/2012 23:10, Michael Sierchio wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Walter Hurry 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

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-11 Thread Robert Bonomi
Walter Hurry 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 cron > >

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-11 Thread Chris
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 Pro

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-11 Thread Walter Hurry
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. /bin/

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-11 Thread Walter Hurry
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) Ju

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-11 Thread Michael Sierchio
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Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-11 Thread Walter Hurry
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 $ $ le

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-11 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: > > #min hr dom month dow command > > SHELL=/bin/bash > > PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/home/ > daddy/bin > > HOME=/home/walterh > > 00 02 * * * /home/walterh/exports.sh > > 05 02 * * * /

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-11 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Walter Hurry 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

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-10 Thread perryh
Robert Bonomi wrote: > ... it was the _initials_ of the name 'isual interace" > 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.) I remember "horsing aro

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread John Bandur
>> From: Ricardo Cuevas Camarena >> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" >> Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 17:59:04 -0500 >> Subject: RE: Newbie Needing Help >> >> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [m

RE: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon May 9 18:16:11 2011 > From: Ricardo Cuevas Camarena > To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" > Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 17:59:04 -0500 > Subject: RE: Newbie Needing Help > > > > -Original Message- > >

RE: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread Ricardo Cuevas Camarena
> -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Gary Kline > Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 4:21 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Newbie Needing Help > > On Mon, Ma

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread Robert Bonomi
> 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 > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Newbie Needing Help > > > --XRI2XbIfl/05pQwm > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread Gary Kline
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 ]

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread Chip Camden
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 > > > > http://www.nancybuttons.com/catalog.cgi?o_custom=&o_selected=1469:1&a

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
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 softwar

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread Chad Perrin
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

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread Antonio Olivares
>> 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 i

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread Chad Perrin
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 f

Re: Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread Chris Rees
On 9 May 2011 19:05, Robert Huff wrote: > > 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. >

Re: Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread Robert Huff
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,

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 9 May 2011 10:35:54 -0700, John or Judy Hixson 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. The sections about

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 9 May 2011 15:04:36 +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. I'd like to mention the Midnight Commander. You can easily in

Re: Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread John or Judy Hixson
On Sun, 08 May 2011 19:49:55, Noel 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 > >> trying

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread RW
On Sun, 8 May 2011 22:13:16 -0400 Alejandro Imass 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 two pr

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Janos Dohanics To: FreeBSD Questions 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 wrote: > [...] > Another problem that's throwing me for a loop is that even

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-08 Thread Janos Dohanics
On Sun, 8 May 2011 17:17:48 -0700 John or Judy Hixson 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 file name at the prom

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-08 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 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 >

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-08 Thread Jon Radel
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 chances.

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-08 Thread Noel
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 chances.

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-08 Thread Daniel Staal
--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.

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-08 Thread Chip Camden
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

Re: Newbie gmirror questions

2010-02-05 Thread Modulok
>> 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. -Mo

Re: Newbie gmirror questions

2010-02-05 Thread Mike Clarke
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

Re: Newbie gmirror questions

2010-01-18 Thread Mike Clarke
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

Re: Newbie gmirror questions

2010-01-17 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
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 can't

Re: Newbie gmirror questions

2010-01-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
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 se

Re: Newbie gmirror questions

2010-01-17 Thread Mike Clarke
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 selecte

Re: Newbie gmirror questions

2010-01-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
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, an

Re: Newbie gmirror questions

2010-01-17 Thread Mike Clarke
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

Re: Newbie gmirror questions

2010-01-16 Thread Pieter de Goeje
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'

Re: Newbie questions (updating, ports, etc.)

2009-12-04 Thread Richard Mace
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 ___

Re: Newbie questions (updating, ports, etc.)

2009-12-03 Thread Charlie Kester
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 threa

Re: Newbie questions (updating, ports, etc.)

2009-12-03 Thread Charlie Kester
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.

Re: Newbie questions (updating, ports, etc.)

2009-12-03 Thread Colin Albert
S4mmael wrote: 2009/12/3 Richard Mace : 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

Re: Newbie questions (updating, ports, etc.)

2009-12-03 Thread S4mmael
2009/12/3 Richard Mace : > 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 see any rea

Re: Newbie questions (updating, ports, etc.)

2009-12-03 Thread Warren Block
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 ca

Re: Newbie questions (updating, ports, etc.)

2009-12-03 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:13 AM, 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 t

Re: Newbie discovers two useful apps...

2009-08-24 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Monday, August 24, 2009 15:45:16 -0500 John Almberg 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 a rc.d script... An

Re: Newbie: offline package use / XFCE.

2009-01-25 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Thomas W. Holloway wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:16:45 -0500, Manolis Kiagias > 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 to

Re: Newbie: offline package use / XFCE.

2009-01-25 Thread Thomas W. Holloway
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:16:45 -0500, Manolis Kiagias 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 toe, KDE4 (4.1 actually)

Re: Newbie: offline package use / XFCE.

2009-01-20 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
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 seem

Re: Newbie: offline package use / XFCE.

2009-01-20 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:16:45 +0200, Manolis Kiagias 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 > the required package

Re: Newbie: offline package use / XFCE.

2009-01-20 Thread Manolis Kiagias
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 appropri

Re: newbie: does irq setting in device.hints work?

2009-01-10 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 1/10/09, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Zhang Weiwu 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

Re: newbie: does irq setting in device.hints work?

2009-01-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Zhang Weiwu 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 trying. > You mean

Re: newbie: does irq setting in device.hints work?

2009-01-09 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Zhang Weiwu 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 shouldn'

Re: newbie: does irq setting in device.hints work?

2009-01-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Zhang Weiwu 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 I made in devices.

boot-time daemon startup (was Re: Newbie question)

2008-11-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"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

Re: Newbie question

2008-11-18 Thread matt donovan
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 an

Re: Newbie question about pkg_add (Canhua)

2008-10-29 Thread Kayven Riese
> > > -- > > Message: 2 > 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@

Re: Newbie question about pkg_add

2008-10-29 Thread Thiago R. Santos
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

Re: Newbie question about pkg_add

2008-10-29 Thread Canhua
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/ >> F

Re: Newbie question about pkg_add

2008-10-29 Thread Thiago R. Santos
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 (

Re: Newbie question about pkg_add

2008-10-29 Thread Canhua
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 > depend

Re: Newbie question about pkg_add

2008-10-28 Thread Steven Susbauer
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/ FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.0-release/Latest/py-networkx.

Re: Newbie question about pkg_add

2008-10-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
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 unavai

Re: newbie internet connection question

2008-03-11 Thread Patrick Mahan
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

Re: newbie internet connection question

2008-03-11 Thread Mel
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 > >> mac

Re: newbie internet connection question

2008-03-11 Thread Patrick Mahan
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

Re: newbie internet connection question

2008-03-11 Thread Roland Smith
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 > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/

Re: newbie internet connection question

2008-03-11 Thread Paul Schmehl
--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 http://www.freebsd.org/do

Re: Newbie questions about updating

2007-09-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
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.

Re: Newbie questions about updating

2007-09-07 Thread cothrige
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.

Re: Newbie questions about updating

2007-09-07 Thread RW
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

Re: Newbie questions about updating

2007-09-07 Thread Predrag Punosevac
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 corre

Re: Newbie questions about updating

2007-09-07 Thread cothrige
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" upd

Re: Newbie questions about updating

2007-09-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
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 n

Re: Newbie questions about updating

2007-09-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
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. >

Re: Newbie questions about updating

2007-09-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
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, Se

Re: Newbie questions about updating

2007-09-07 Thread cothrige
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

Re: Newbie questions about updating

2007-09-07 Thread Robert Huff
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 thing

Re: Newbie questions about updating

2007-09-07 Thread Manolis Kiagias
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 equivalen

Re: Newbie questions about updating

2007-09-07 Thread Predrag Punosevac
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 bas

Re: Newbie questions about updating

2007-09-07 Thread dgmm
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 ___ freebsd-quest

Re: Newbie questions about updating

2007-09-07 Thread Lars Eighner
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

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