Upgrade 5.4 to 7 ????

Hi List, Is it possible to upgrade to a stable v7 from 5.4 ?? If so how would i go about it ??? Any help or advise is appreciated. Kind Regards Dave C ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

Backup procedure question / theory

HI All, I need to automatically once a day backup some files on my Win 2003 serve to my remote FreeBSD box running v6. What i need specifically is to compress the win files as small as they can be then either set my FreeBSD box to go a get the file or tell win to send it to my FreeBSD box.

Onpening and Closing ports

Hi All, Had a little nasty person trying to break my sshd on port 22. I need to change and open a new port for sshd but i do not know how. Can one of you kind people help me with this please Many kind regards Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org m

hardware testing / burn in software

Hi List, Is there any freebsd based p.c hardware / burn in testing software available ? I ask as i am building 3 new servers and want to check all parts ie, mem, hdd, cpu etc before loading on my freebsd. What would be ideal is a micro kernal on a floppy disk or self booting cd with the testin

Simple file count question

Hi List, I know this is going to be simple but I cant find a suitable answer by trawling the web so I ask how do I count the number of certain files in a directory? So I am in my dir and want to count how many files begin with db and show me the number. I hope you can help me and thank you in ad

RE: Cron job questions

else's) Thanks for your help Dave C -Original Message- From: Frank Mueller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 March 2004 09:07 To: Dave Carrera Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cron job questions Hi, 1) if you don't have either cron.allow nore cron.deny, then anyone is

Cron job questions

Hi List, I am trying to set up a cronjob and want to pass by the list if I am doing it right. 1) I saw on a list that /usr/lib/cron/cron.allow or /usr/lib/cron/cron.deny needs to exist is this true on FreeBSD as I don’t have them which I think restricts only root to use cron. 2) I can only su to

RE: Pnmscale on 4.8 i386 stable

Thanks Matthew, I do not have the port skel on my system so how do I get the port local to make it ? Thanks for any help Dave C -Original Message- From: Matthew Seaman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 February 2004 13:13 To: Dave Carrera Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Pnmscale

Pnmscale on 4.8 i386 stable

Hi List, I cant find "pnmscale" on my system anywhere :-( How can I get it ? Any help Is appreciated. Dave C --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.585 / Virus Database: 370 - Release Date: 11/02/2004 _