Re: Cronjob Cvsup - What?

2013-01-27 Thread MFV
Hello Matthew, Thanks for an outstanding piece of documentation. It resolves a number of concerns I had and convinced me to move from portsnap where I discovered an apparent bug that gave me security concerns. More specifically I manually edited /usr/ports/UPDATING and portsnap did not

Re: BSD Magazine PDFs

2011-02-18 Thread MFV
Hello, I've been downloading BSD Mag since it first came out and your list is identical to mine. Cheers .. Marek On Thursday 17 February 2011 21:40:37 Xn Nooby wrote: Is there a place where I can download all the BSD Magazine PDF back issues? I have got a lot of them from the BSD Magazine

Re: Not able to compile GENERIC kernel

2009-09-25 Thread mfv
On Sunday, 20 September 2009 12:55:44 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:15:15 -0400, mfv mrk...@acm.org wrote: Hello, After rebuilding FreeBSD for many years I am not able to build a GENERIC kernel for the last few days. It always stops when compiling acpi. The source

Not able to compile GENERIC kernel

2009-09-20 Thread mfv
Hello, After rebuilding FreeBSD for many years I am not able to build a GENERIC kernel for the last few days. It always stops when compiling acpi. The source code is up to date for 7 -STABLE for i386 on a amd64 cpu. I have always been able to recompile a GENERIC kernel since release 5.1

Re: Portaudit strange behavior.

2009-07-01 Thread mfv
On Wednesday, 1 July 2009 02:02:47 Arek Czereszewski wrote: Hi, On all my servers I have portaudit version 0.5.13 If I try update audit database (by hand or from periodic script) I have: # portaudit -Fd auditfile.tbz 100% of 53 kB 39 kBps portaudit:

Re: Questions on portmaster

2009-07-01 Thread mfv
On Wednesday, 1 July 2009 02:02:47 Manish Jain wrote: Hi, I am using portmaster on FreeBSD-7.2 to keep my ports up to date. When there are multiple ports to be updated, portmaster will fork off child processes. Does each child start 'make fetch' in the background ? I ask this because the

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-24 Thread mfv
On Monday, 22 June 2009 16:48:02 RW wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten about /usr/ports/UPDATING and all that pkgdb -Fu stuff or

Re: Reading warnings when installing multiple ports

2009-05-15 Thread mfv
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 13:53:35 Mel Flynn wrote: On Monday 11 May 2009 15:21:24 Jerry McAllister wrote: But, I very often wish there was a convenient way to see some of those messages and especially messages about things one has to do during the install, such as manually installing