en more strange, as
Poettering is allquantifying *BSD!)
And furthermore, I've found some Linux users migrating
AWAY from Linux, using FreeBSD instead. How can this be
combined with Poettering's claim?
I've really waited some time to write a statement to a
discussion that _I_ consid
.flv,
*.avi, *.mp(e)g, *.mp3, *.wma, *.exe - and of course all
the variations of the extensions with uppercase letters.
Also consider *.rar and maybe *.zip for compressed content.
If file extensions have been manipulated (rare case), the
"file" command can still identify the correct file t
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:38:22 +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote:
> On 07/18/2011 10:10 AM, Polytropon wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:55:09 +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote:
> >> Hello
> >>
> >> Anyone knows an utility that I could pipe to the "find" command
>
TEX=TETEX (with a reasonable
default, maybe really =TEXLIVE), and ports depending on
"some LaTeX" should honor this preference.
Even with our endless hard disks, some users do not see it
as "good practice" to install two functionally nearly
identical software packages. :-)
/usr/ports/archivers/xz on my (quite old) 7-STABLE installation.
/usr/src/contrib/xz on my ("new") 8.2-STABLE installation.
So obviously it's a port that got incorporated into the
base system which must have happened somewhere between
7 and 8.
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x27;ve used it primarily to incorporate
chinese text into german papers. Basically the macro
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} does the trick.
You're outputting plain text mostly, so LaTeX would be
considered "too heavy" at this point. I'm not sure if
you can program PostScript d
mplemented
features, broken code, messing around with quirks and
short-time solutions do not seem to be very welcome among
FreeBSD users.
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;free market" in
general. Business is not about being nice to people.
It's primarily about making money. And therefore, some
uncomfortable thoughts have to be sacrificed to the
goal of growth in unit sales (or whatever).
This is where FreeBSD enters the game: It doesn't care
about
have a fine meal.
Not to mention those who pay money to actually eat
garbage while being told it's a fine meal. :-)
In fact, I would not hesitate to fund development that
would fit my individual interests (as my donation would
also be individual). If this benefits the whole community
(as
nate from Unicode support. The devel/icu
port should be the one to bring this library.
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need additional masking flags as this file system doesn't
understand UNIX permissions (and therefore files are often
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On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:48:46 -0400, Jerry wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:58:08 +0200
> Polytropon articulated:
>
> > Here the circle closes: Without STANDARDS, you wouldn't
> > be able to view the digital pictures you took with a
> > camera 10 years ago because
gt; because of IBM's promises surrounding OS/2.[16] Until release 2.0 in
> April 1992, OS/2 ran in 16-bit protected mode and therefore could not
> benefit from the Intel 80386's much simpler 32-bit flat memory model
> and virtual 8086 m
sor
will be). And in regards of software, such a product would
be limited to a specific hardware platform, preventing any
improvements, maybe even hindering new innovative and useful
products entering the market.
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On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:01:20 -0400, Jerry wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:31:41 +0200
> Polytropon articulated:
>
> > Your TV example is very good. I've recently read a text
> > that predicts the future of CDs - a text from the late 80's.
> > When we consid
only if the TOS
> supports it.
In most cases, TOS include certain permissions for IT operations
staff to "maintain system healthcare" which traditionally includes
a certain surveillance of user activity and file contents.
> If it does not, then you get the DCMA notice and handle it
>
ly and in popularity.
>
> Well the PC-BSD layer gives a great installer, now the only thing needed
> would be a great server/daemons management layer.
And better german language support in KDE. :-)
> A FreeBSD distro with LDAP, ACL and MAC management would be nice though.
You c
stomers
lost all their data in the Cloud years ago? :-)
While I agree that Linux and BSD _may_ be irrelevant to the
masses, it will be relevant to "non-conformers" (the real
professionals) in 2020. Two years later, we'll be processed
into Soylent Green anyway. :-)
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On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:20:29 +0200, Jerome Herman wrote:
> On 19/07/2011 08:11, Polytropon wrote:
> > Arguing... what is easier at manually locating software using
> > a web browser, manually downloading it and interactively
> > holding the installer's hand while insta
a different tool
(or "no tool"), it may be the reason why it is missing.
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external disks, USB keys,
Internet) - anywhere EXCEPT on your server, as they've
learned that files tend to disappear. :-)
It really depends on the kind of server, and who will be
allowed to use it...
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lever enough... erm... well,
maybe that's a bad beginning. Let me try again. :-)
People should have learned that whenever they are using
a device connected to the Internet, be it their own laptop
or the desktop at work, NOTHING is private. And in worst
case, "by accide
run a firewall and maybe port redirection?
Do you have /etc/hosts set up properly?
What does
% telnet 25
in contradiction to
% telnet 587
show?
Are you sure your ISP isn't filtering anything "for your
comfortability"? :-)
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PCL.
Entry in /etc/printcap & done. (But also CUPS can
generate PCL and direct it to a printer name that
refers to the IP of the printer.)
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ices (the larger the "better"). Most people who run an
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do this in a _proper_ way. Sadly, those have to suffer
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If you do further investigation, you'll see that it's
not as scary as I pointed out here, but I simply love
the pure imagination... :-)
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_also_ have the advantage of providing an
abstraction layer that was OPTIONAL, and if you really
need a better implementation (from a developer's point
of view), you can still do it on your own, interfacing
with the standard system means.
Jerry, see this as an "I agree" in relation to
d /some/di/rec/to/ry
# make something
# su -
# cd /some/di/rec/to/ry <=== Again!
# make something else
# exit
The key is that "su -" may change the current directory
as it does a full login. See "man su", especially the -m
option whi
ache out to disk."
Is this "immediately" enough for your needs?
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one fires up MS Office or OpenOffice.org just to write the
> equivalent of a post-it note, there is something horribly, desperately
> wrong with the way people use software.
Of course. For creating post-it notes, you have to
use "Powerpoint", and if it should have columns or
boxes
ools like
> NetworkManager being released under restrictive licensing that makes it
> less likely to be harvested for ideas by OS projects like FreeBSD.
You already have "good" examples in the ports collection
(see my examples above). Luckily, for doing that on OS level,
it takes m
to soft updates, get
immediately flushed / written?
> In order to
> implement a stable queue, it would be best to use a different
> filesystem.
What type of filesystem would match those requirements?
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ttp://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/
FreeBSD provides excellent documentation that helps you
to do the easy task of installation.
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> paper; another comlaint is that it goes thru toner very
> fast. ...
Oh god! Those are indications that it must be a
real crappy consumer-targeted "printer" (quotes
intended!). You should not waste money or time o
more on the average.
There is _no ink_ in a laser printer. If it was,
it would be a problem. :-)
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is "Deskjet", add
setenv PRINTER Deskjet
to /etc/csh.cshrc for systemwide use (all users),
or whatever your default shell is. You can also
use login.conf to set this environmental variable.
I suggest to do so because if _not_ done, you'd
have to add "-P Deskjet"
cl 5
> and 6.
Excellent, should save you much trouble. And networking
is also a fine feature, very handy, especially if you
want to be able to print from more than one machine.
USB simply isn't that smart. :-)
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On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:57:08 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Polytropon,
>
> Thank you for the suggestion. I am using bash as my shell. I have a
> file ~/.bashrc with command in there and I get:
>
>
> bash: setenv: command not found
>
> =
Go: File -> Print..., then Properties, where you'll
find Print Coommand:
lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}
So you _could_ do some customization here - but it
sounds no good to do that. :-)
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NTER is present, it will be used
as the default -P parameter. It makes things easier.
For example, _all_ printing does to the default printer.
If a temporary change is needed, just set $PRINTER to a
different value as long as you need it. If it's a "one
time only" use, -P is definit
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:06:47 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Polytropon wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:44:52 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> >> Made the changes with global /etc/csh.cshrc and it did not work :(
> >
> > Requir
ved from /malus experientia/.
No, /carpetum throwibus et garbagiae/. :-)
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s "from scratch". After that, unload your user
data and make the neccessary changes to the system
and service configuration. Check everything (don't
"just copy" settings), as some changes might have
taken place.
(I've used the last way described personally.)
thing you like.
> Can some sage person out there help me out of this predicament? Right
> now I feel like I'm doomed to keep running Linux or nothing at all! I
> am dying to get back to FreeBSD again.
First try to use dd to clean the beginning of the hard
disk. In _worst_ case,
gain) before I bought this machine and had to abandon it
> because it wouldn't properly detect either my CD-ROM or my hard drive.
> You can imagine what a disappointment *that* was!
I can - disk and optical drives are considered basics.
I know it would be too much to require the sy
eally, REALLY require features of the printer
that need to be addressed by the PPD mechanism, use CUPS,
even if I can't imagine such features (because gs lets you
address things like paper tray preference, duplexer and
so on through PCL commands).
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ome.
How about Hetzner? They support FreeBSD and also offer
root servers.
http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/
Check out the "Dedicated Server" offers on the left of
the page. Something you're searching for?
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be more comfortable than the "common" windowing
solutions that urgently need to "entertain" you. :-)
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It's very polite and precise about why using "DOC" files
is generally a bad idea. It can be easily concluded that
it also applies to "DOCX" files.
The document also discusses alternatives.
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ongs to /usr/ports/devel/cdash/files/
as it seems, but that doesn't exist (at least not on my
local ports tree). A "cdash" port doesn't exist in the
whole ports tree.
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t;P4\n");
else {
gsub(" dit", "P32L32E", $0);
gsub(" di", "P32L32E", $0);
gsub(" dah", "P32L8E", $0);
printf("%sP16\n", $0);
}
}' | dd bs=2
y FFS ?
See:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/disks.html#DU-VS-DF
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through a simple
amplifier (e. g. an A210, but that's too much work for
just a beep).
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combine
the easy method of generating simple sounds with the
ability to use whatever one wants to connect to the
sound card (builtin speakers, headphones, speakers
or amplifier).
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ring it)? Does it indicate
a defective driver or a defective hardware? What do
you think?
I have _never_ encountered such kind of problems yet,
so I'm almost out of ideas. Sadly I can't check with
my (wonderfully working) ATI card because this one
is AGP, but the mainboard only has PCIe
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 03:55:20 +0100, Frank Shute wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 03:22:06AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> > Has anyone got the "nouveau" driver working, and if,
> > how precisely has he done so?
>
> Yes. I got it working once by following the
On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 21:38:59 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Aug 2011, Polytropon wrote:
>
> > PS. Looking at your xorg.conf, maybe the reason why I
> >can't do Ctrl+Alt+Backspace anymore is that DontZap
> >belongs to ServerLayout, not to Serv
er, this one is only
for 2D. With the present incorporation of 3D stuff
into "simple" desktop applications this might be
worth considering.
PS. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace now works. I'm always "impressed"
how much work it takes to _transform_ functionality
that one takes
ia, or better
ATI, or Intel? It's a hard decision because I don't want
to get from one trouble into the next one...
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e-install
everything (Intel Core2 4300 1.80GHz / 1799.81-MHz K8-class CPU
here, and 2 GB RAM, that's why the AMD64 choice) and use i386
instead?
And maybe fix Gtk+ triggered GPU trouble that way? :-)
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k/bsd.licenses.mk", line 756: warning: duplicate script for target
"install-license" ignored
[...]
swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed
[...]
Aug 14 23:44:37 r56 kernel: pid 62075 (make), uid 0, was killed: out of swap
space
Killed
There are many of the "swap_pag
d GPU trouble that way? :-)
>
> Could be.
Even though my new system feels much faster, fine-tuning and
repeated repeatative repeatition problem, i. e. re-installing
from scratch is a always something I try to avoid. But maybe
it's worth doing so - I'll keep it in mind.
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gine the amount of
things that stopped working. :-)
> All in all, your system, your rules ;)
My system, my mistakes. :-)
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Thanks, I now got it working, the only remaining problems is
that the programs I intend to run (older than 5 years, maybe
even 10) have problems with "DirectX" stuff which I am supposed
to manually
e][space][space][space]
boot: [Enter]
[space][space][space][space]
Ok
boot -s <- this starts into single user mode
In case there console is not marked as "insecure", there won't
be any further password requests and you'll successfully reach
a root prompt:
# _
re specific, using a more precise question?
At this point, it's mostly guess work, at least to me. :-)
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not right for us, or any others who
> care about using an operating system as a means to an end.
Again, allquantified statements aren't that good in such
a consideration.
> FreeBSD is
> a hobby and you have to use it because you like using it for the
> purpose of using
is another important principal: FIRST think, THEN do.
In case of problems, restore from backup (which should be
good practice in any updating scenario anyway, as in general
and in every regards). :-)
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be determining the choice.
But again allow me to express that this is my very individual
opinion that doesn't neccessarily apply to others.
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osts directly and trade some facts about
> all these claims. Preferably one post per fact at a time like
> Netiquette indicates.
Yes - those claims aside, I'd be interested in real facts,
real cases where the claims could be backed up with some
evidence. I do _not_ want to say that it's
c:330: error: 'Giant' undeclared (first use in
this function)
*** Error code 1
There were no problems on 5.x and 7.x with this kind
of configuration. Is this also a functionality that is
not present anymore, or am I missing some change that
has to be made on current 8.x systems?
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cups-image-1.4.6
cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_6
gutenprint-cups-5.2.4_2
As I said, printing worked from everywhere - at least
yesterday it did. :-)
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On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:55:34 -0400, Rod Person wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:58:41 +0200
> Polytropon wrote:
> > My question to the list now:
> >
> > Did anybody get Opera working with CUPS or (better)
> > without it? Maybe did I miss something impo
ly confused nature as a document.
Oh, then don't visit the non-english translations of the
documentation. :-)
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Polytropon wrote:
> >
> > Well, in _this_ area, I would also agree that work should be
> > done to concentrate documentati
_not_ allowing
others to include Java, media codecs and so on in a default
install, and some software manufacturers refuse to support
FreeBSD (which is their right, but doesn't make it any better).
The same applies to restricted support for incompatible
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of documentation frees you from constant
learning - if you want to keep using new technology.
> The only time I resort straight to the handbook is to the hardware
> compatibility list whenever I'm thinking of buying something new for the
> server/desktop, but BEFORE I actually buy it
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:01:50 +0200, Kruppa, Peter Ulrich wrote:
> Sorry, I forgot to include the list -
>
> Am 24.08.2011 17:19, schrieb Polytropon:
> > On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:38:45 +0200, Kruppa, Peter Ulrich wrote:
> >> Opera really does work with Cups - you will see you
nter also
seems to be DEPRECATED...
Summary: Printing still does not work. And file dialog got worse.
I will try to make a workaround by using the "Print to file"
mechanism to pipe it directly into the printer somehow.
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An
t to print. If I try this from other
programs (e. g. Gimp, the Sylpheed MUA, or OpenOffice), the
entry is listed, and the printer starts to work. In the web
administration, all jobs are listed as "completed", except
that the Opera printing jobs didn't result in printing, while
the ot
ult?
Just like A4 is the default paper size? :-)
> Running 8.2-STABLE #0 AMD64
Also 8.2-STABLE here, but i386 after nVidia problems with AMD64. :-)
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On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:15:03 -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 05:49:42 +0200
> Polytropon wrote:
>
> > Meanwhile, I got the "nvidia" driver compiled, installed
> > and running. Tests like
> >
> > % xlock -nolock -mode lame
ined some more details, e. g.
different job sizes when printing the same page from Opera
and from Firefox, but due to the reboot the message was lost.)
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> I can see this will be important here:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
>
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Polytropon wrote:
> > But allow me to say
> > that _if_ you are interested in contribu
tion (running Opera does
not imply the sound to appear).
I have already checked "smartctl -a /dev/ad4" which doesn't
show any malicious behaviour of the disk itself (sometimes
also the reason for strange sounds).
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a red marker
to highlight the USB related error messages. Then just say:
"This USB adaptor is broken." No average salesman will disagree,
and you should immediately get your money back. I've tried
that, it works fine. :-)
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On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 23:54:32 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Aug 2011, Polytropon wrote:
>
> > Since I have installed my new system (FreeBSD/i386 8.2-STABLE),
> > I have found some kind of disk activity I've never had before
> > on my home system. As th
ork configuration dialogs available (root
> password if necessary), while setting values for all other user dialogs and
> screens.
I don't think it is neccessary (as assumed by the "incomplete"
install.cfg mentioned above), but consult the documentation to
be sure.
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in _my_ case, business applications may likely be something
quite different from yours, and from anyone else's.
If you are interested in a FreeBSD system that comes with
KDE and lots of average productivity application
unted partition, use
# fsdb -r
in order to find out more about the files (inodes) that you suspect
being damaged.
Also see "The Sleuth Kit" (port "sleuth") with the ils and fls tools
that can give good information about files and inodes.
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# fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr /dev/da0
(Assumption: /dev/da0 is the CF card.)
Note that the first step will re-initialize the card. If you don't
want to build it from scratch, i. e. _only_ modify the MBR, the
second command should do it.
See "man fdisk" for details on the fd
m all, or remember them all,
> even if I tried, but I know that it's pretty simple to basically do this:
>
> pkg_add -r bunchOfWindowManagers moreWindowManagers
>
> And so on. Or at least that's how I do it normally.
Binary installation is a common method of installing programs,
n
noauto" on the options field.
For mounting in general: The user issuing the mount command has
to have proper access to the device file (/dev/da0 in this example)
_and_ the target directory.
See "man mount" and "man fstab" for details.
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r (which controls the _act_ of mounting
if all requirements - as mentioned above - are met).
However, there _are_ options that can be included in fstab
for applying a certain mask to files contained in a mounted
directory, see -m and -M in "man mount_msdosfs" for example.
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server instead
of relying on abstracted layers of abstracted abstractions
that GUIs provide here, maybe paying with speed and security
loss?
It's like driving a car; you _can_ pay a driver to drive
your car all the time, but maybe you should consider to learn
how to drive yo
On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:18:21 -0400, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
> On 09/05/2011 08:31 AM, Polytropon wrote:
> > On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 23:47:03 -0400, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> so I have a friend who is looking for the best OS for a web server, that
an also use the sysinstall Partition screen
to update the boot sector (make no change to the slice
listing, maybe mark the FreeBSD slice as "active", then
exit the screen and choose either "standard MBR" or the
"boot manager" depending on your requirements).
As I&
7;s a quite nice desktop Linux, but I'm
not sure how well it does _perform_ (see: performance) on
a server. Maybe you can do some research on Linux server
operating systems that emphasize an administration GUI?
As I said, I think SuSE or Red Hat has something like that.
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of the software in use for bugs and security updates that
might be interesting in terms of system security. This sould
be done for any "major server software" (Apache, PHP, MySQL
and the services utilizing those software, whatever you
want to run on the server).
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Polytropon
Ma
of portmaster,
it's a good choice to always run "pkgdb -aF" before and
after anything you do (e. g. also "around" a pkg_add -r
command). I've been using portupgrade in the past, but
today I prefer "just ports" (home) and portmaster (work).
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Polytropon
Ma
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