Re: ports from -release vs. -latest [was: RE: FreeBSD 7.1 Content]

2008-09-04 Thread Wesley Shields
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 10:30:49PM +0200, Ernest Sales wrote: > I use to update ports almost weekly from -latest, but the resulting GUI is > not always consistent, so I am considering to stick with the -release tag. > Could someone comment on the quality of ports from -release vs. -latest? In > oth

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content

2008-09-04 Thread Wesley Shields
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 08:34:54AM -0600, Dan Allen wrote: > > On 4 Sep 2008, at 7:43 AM, Wesley Shields wrote: > > > No thanks. This means you have to have a working connection to > > install > > firefox via this method. Since not everyone will have that it is

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content

2008-09-04 Thread Wesley Shields
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 06:28:44PM -0600, Dan Allen wrote: > > On 3 Sep 2008, at 5:54 PM, Brian wrote: > > > I always do the minimal install over the net. I got X working in 7- > > stable by doing the minimal install, then the following. > > > > pkg_add -r xorg > > pkg_add -r portupgrade > > po

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-04 Thread Wesley Shields
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 09:24:04PM -0700, Nathan Way wrote: > > > > Where can one find the expected EoL for these releases? I've poked > > around the website and can't find any notes mentioning this, although > > several people have been making posts suggesting that people should > > review the E

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content

2008-09-03 Thread Wesley Shields
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 05:14:55AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2008-Sep-03 10:36:11 -0600, Dan Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Also, and I am sure I am not the only one with one of these, my new > >$500 Dell Inspiron 1525 is not supported well by BSD RELENG_7: the > >Intel 4965 wireless

Re: Multi-machine mirroring choices

2008-07-15 Thread Wesley Shields
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 07:54:26AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > One of the "annoyances" to ZFS snapshots, however, was that I had to > write my own script to do snapshot rotations (think incremental dump(8) > but using ZFS snapshots). There is a PR[1] to get something like this in the ports tre

Re: Nagios + 6.3-RELEASE == Hung Process

2008-01-05 Thread Wesley Shields
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 01:50:15PM -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 10:55 AM 1/3/2008, Vivek Khera wrote: > As noted in my original report, this isn't a nagios issue per se ... >>> my first >>> experience with this issue was with Azureus/java ... so its a >>> 'threading issue >>> in general' ... >>

Re: cvsup error

2007-06-06 Thread Wesley Shields
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 10:20:11AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > Wesley Shields wrote: > > > The difference is that csup is written in C and included in the base. > > The only lacking feature in csup is that it doesn't work in checkout > > mode, which shouldn't

Re: cvsup error

2007-06-06 Thread Wesley Shields
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 03:33:52PM +0700, zen wrote: > Niki Denev wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > zen wrote: > > > >> hi, > >> recently i tried to update my fresh install machine of 6.2RELEASE to > >> 6.2STABLE, > >> but alway failed with these error msgs:

Re: Background process

2007-03-08 Thread Wesley Shields
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 02:03:24PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I connect to my freebsd box via ssh using putty from a WindowsXP > workstation, I want to run a process on the freebsd box, then close my ssh > session (closing putty) while keeping the process running. > > So I run m

Re: Installing/Upgrading Ports

2006-11-15 Thread Wesley Shields
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:59:38PM +, Suhail Choudhury wrote: > Hi, > > Why trying to install ports via "sysinstall -> customise -> ports", > whichever location I try, I get the following message: > > Warning: Can't find the `6.1-RELEASE-p10' distribution on this ? x ? > ? ? ? FTP s

Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches

2005-05-23 Thread Wesley Shields
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 03:21:32PM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: > Could someone point me to a resource that outlines the expected supported > lifetime of all the branches? Can't find anything concrete on the webpage. http://www.freebsd.org/security/ - It's listed about 1/3 of the way down the page i

Re: DVD Drives

2005-01-28 Thread Wesley Shields
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 10:24:41AM -0800, Jeff Seeman wrote: > My customer runs a small auto repair shop, they use vender supplied software > for computer based repair guides. What I have is 2 DVD-ROMs, both contain a > data DVD. I would just copy the data to the HD if they didn't update every > mo