when I do pkg_add -r somepackage
the program gets the package from
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.3-release/Latest/;
so it just works.
however when I do pkg_upgrade -a
I get
fetch: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-release/INDEX:
File unavailable
Hi Philip,
On 2012-05-20 13:20, Philip wrote:
okay, figured it out
adding
setenv PACKAGESITE
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.3-release/Latest/;
to the end of /root/.cshrc
then log out and in again seems to fix the issue.
HINT#1: Your own solution above does
On 2012-04-30 12:20, Philip wrote:
The problem is that the freebsd install isn't well patched because I
just can't get along with the package management as well as debian apt.
Can you be more specific as to what problems you have with FreeBSD
package management - maybe we could help you ?
I suppose that pkg_upgrade -a is equivalent to apt-get update then
apt-get upgrade, which isn't so hard. hmm
Oh and current isn't stable :S
and whenever I try to post anything on the forum I get pulled to pieces
about the quality of my grammer and formating of posts.
Maybe I should try again
It's about power consumption and availability.
The soekris consumes only 5W or something and will run off of an old car
battery for a day or more. There's no point in having a security box
that's running but the web/email server is out.
thanks, Philip
On 09/05/12 03:24, Izaac wrote:
On Mon,
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 03:11:19PM +0100, Philip wrote:
It's about power consumption and availability.
Yep. Security regularly winds up being a trade off.
The soekris consumes only 5W or something and will run off of an old car
battery for a day or more. There's no point in having a
Nothing on my debian file server needs to be 24/7. It's things like
photos, music, ISO images. However I do want it segregated from the
Internet.
Actually I might have to have attempt 2 at nanobsd as that appears to be
targeted at what I am trying to do. I tried to compile it on a freebsd
Hi Philip and list,
I want to suggest you to run on the net5501 only a security solution likes
OpenBSD + PF,
or something like pfSense, mOnOwall, or any firewall distro you like and trust.
If this is not in the range of your budget (because you wasn't telling
something about) and you
don´t
On 2012-05-09 01:08:20 +0200 (+0200), JF Straeten wrote:
[...]
One more choice : Debian + LXC (Linux Containers).
[...]
Semi-recent discussions on the oss-sec list suggest LXC doesn't yet
provide good separation from a security perspective... for example,
this rather longish thread:
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:20:07AM +0100, Philip wrote:
|The problem is that the freebsd install isn't well patched because I
|just can't get along with the package management as well as debian
|apt. I used to get along with netbsd package management okay but that
|doesn't have jails. Now it has
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