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 EoL

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 portupgrade -NRP

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 still necessary to bundle

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 other

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 and the

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 tree.

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' ... For years now

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: proxy2#

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 be a problem for your average use. You

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 my

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 server.

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 in

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