System update

2005-01-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I have serveral questions about the update procedure. 1) starting from 4.10 RELEASE I have cvsup-ed to 4.10 RELENG. Now what is the command to build FreeBSD? The hand book says "do not use make world, but use make buildworld", and look at /usr/src/UPDATING first. But in /usr/src/UPDATING it

system update

2002-10-01 Thread Brian Henning
Hello- what is the differnece between these two files? standard-supfile stable-supfile in what situation would one cvsup one or the other? the other question i have is what are the differnence between these two processes: config GENERIC cd ../../compile/GENERIC make depend; make; make install

Core System Update

2004-09-20 Thread Kenneth A. Bond
orm this when a security vulnerability is found? I am trying to achieve maximum uptime for these systems and want to confirm how often I should perform a core system update. Please advise. Thank you in advance for your assistance. Computers are like Air Conditioners: They stop working prope

Re: System update

2005-01-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 08:34:22AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, > > I have serveral questions about the update procedure. > > 1) starting from 4.10 RELEASE I have cvsup-ed to 4.10 RELENG. Now what > is the command to build FreeBSD? > > The hand book says "do not use make world, but use mak

Re: System update

2005-01-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
> Where does it say that? I see only comments in passing about 'make > world', but the explicit directions on how to update (correctly) > mention the separate buildworld/installworld steps. Around line 490 of /usr/src/UPDATING (version 4.10-p5) it reads: To rebuild everything ---

Re: System update

2005-01-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 08:55:27AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: > > Where does it say that? I see only comments in passing about 'make > > world', but the explicit directions on how to update (correctly) > > mention the separate buildworld/installworld steps. > > Around line 490 of /usr/src/UPDAT

Re: system update

2002-10-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:11:13AM -0500, Brian Henning wrote: > Hello- > > what is the differnece between these two files? > standard-supfile > stable-supfile > in what situation would one cvsup one or the other? stable-supfile always contains the configuration to cvsup the RELENG_4 branch, w

Re: system update

2002-10-01 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi! > the other question i have is what are the differnence between these two > processes: > config GENERIC > cd ../../compile/GENERIC > make depend; make; make install This is what you would do if you want to re-compile the generic kernel. Since the generic kernel is already on your system, do

Re: system update

2002-10-01 Thread Kevin Oberman
> From: "Toomas Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 20:03:28 +0300 > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi! > > > the other question i have is what are the differnence between these two > > processes: > > config GENERIC > > cd ../../compile/GENERIC > > make depend; make; make install >

Full system update.

2012-10-25 Thread Ashkan Rahmani
Hi, How I can update system completely some thing like apt-get dist-upgrade in Debian? --- Best Regards, Ashkan R ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Core System Update

2004-09-20 Thread Bill Moran
make installkernel > # > # mergemaster -p# make installworld# mergemaster# reboot > > Should I only perform this when a security vulnerability is found? > > I am trying to achieve maximum uptime for these systems and want to > confirm how often I should perform a core

RE: Core System Update

2004-09-20 Thread Haulmark, Chris
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Moran > Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 1:31 PM > To: Kenneth A. Bond > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Core System Update > > "Kenneth A. Bond" &l

RE: Core System Update

2004-09-21 Thread Kenneth A. Bond
2004 1:31 PM > To: Kenneth A. Bond > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Core System Update > > "Kenneth A. Bond" wrote: > > > Hello, > > I am trying to determine how often to update my systems. > > Currently I am using anoncvs in order to synch my sourc

GEOM after system update

2011-10-24 Thread Sergei Vyshenski
Hi, Is it safe to ignore a sting in gmesg: GEOM: ad10s1: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s). This appeared after system update 7.4-stable --> 8.2-stable. Everything seems to work fine, but "disklabel ad10s1" is anxious too: disklabel: partition c doesn't co

Re: Full system update.

2012-10-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 25/10/2012 20:19, Ashkan Rahmani wrote: > How I can update system completely some thing like apt-get dist-upgrade in > Debian? You can't. With FreeBSD it's always a two step thing, because it has the distinction between the base system and ported software. You probably want freebsd-update(8)

Re: Full system update.

2012-10-25 Thread Alexandr Alexeev
The closest equivalent of `sudo apt-get dist-upgrade` in FreeBSD is `pkg_upgrade -a`. This tool is a part of bsdadminscripts package. If you also wanted to upgrade a kernel, look at freebsd-update. But don't forget that in FreeBSD all is not so simple like in Debian. You have to monitor /usr/ports

Re: GEOM after system update

2011-10-24 Thread Michael Sierchio
,63s != 16h,63s). > > This appeared after system update 7.4-stable --> 8.2-stable. > Everything seems to work fine, but "disklabel ad10s1" is anxious too: > > disklabel: partition c doesn't cover the whole unit! > disklabel: An incorrect partition c may cause p

FreeBSD system update killing PostFix links?

2005-04-16 Thread Tim Hogan
I have recently done a system update to address some security issues and discovered that during the update the soft links in my /usr/sbin directory were re-written back to the system defaults. I believe that I have changed the mailq, sendmail, and newaliases soft links back to what they should be

Re: FreeBSD system update killing PostFix links?

2005-04-17 Thread Mike Woods
Tim Hogan wrote: I have recently done a system update to address some security issues and discovered that during the update the soft links in my /usr/sbin directory were re-written back to the system defaults. I believe that I have changed the mailq, sendmail, and newaliases soft links back to

Re: FreeBSD system update killing PostFix links?

2005-04-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-04-16 21:10, Tim Hogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have recently done a system update to address some security issues and > discovered that during the update the soft links in my /usr/sbin directory > were re-written back to the system defaults. I believe that I hav

Re: FreeBSD system update killing PostFix links?

2005-04-17 Thread Tim Hogan
Mike Woods wrote: Tim Hogan wrote: I have recently done a system update to address some security issues and discovered that during the update the soft links in my /usr/sbin directory were re-written back to the system defaults. I believe that I have changed the mailq, sendmail, and newaliases

Re: FreeBSD system update killing PostFix links?

2005-04-17 Thread Tim Hogan
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-04-16 21:10, Tim Hogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have recently done a system update to address some security issues and discovered that during the update the soft links in my /usr/sbin directory were re-written back to the system defaults. I believe

Re: FreeBSD system update killing PostFix links?

2005-04-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-04-17 06:19, Tim Hogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I edited the /etc/mail/mailer.conf before I did the last update and it > did not seem to work. I think that I will try the NO_SENDMAIL option > in the make.conf file and see what happens. One question though, the > NO_MAILWRAPPER option