Recommendations on when to use soft updates

Hi list, I'm quite new to FreeBSD. I would like to know if there are any official recommendations on when to use soft updates and when not to use them. I currently maintain only one FreeBSD machine. $ uname -v FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Fri Oct 2 08:22:32 UTC 2009 r...@amd64-builder.daemonology

Re: NSIS compile failed on FreeBSD 7.2

Matt Wilks wrote: > I'm attempting to install NSIS (http://nsis.sourceforge.net/) on an > amd64 FreeBSD 7.2 system and having trouble. When I run > [snip] >From the project's home page: "NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open source system to create Windows installers."

amavisd-new port "updates" configuration files

Hi list, I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask about this. Yesterday I upgraded amavisd-new with portupgrade. The upgrade went fine but when I started amavisd-new it didn't behave quite as I had expected. It turned out that the upgrade had deleted my version of /usr/local/etc/amavisd.co

Re: Build kernel failure

Mikael Bak wrote: > -options SMP > -device apic > -device eisa > Responding to myself. I reactivated the above options, and now I get a different error: /usr/src/sys/dev/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.c:7896: internal compiler error: in output_constructor, at varasm.c:4311 [snip] *** Error code 1

Build kernel failure

Hi, I have installed FreeBSD 7.2 on an old laptop. It's only for fun and learning. I wanted to make my console use full 1024x768, so I followed this howto: http://kimklai.blogspot.com/2007/05/howto-freebsd-console-framebuffer.html # make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERICVESA Gives me after quite lon

Re: Upgrade FreeBSD 7.1 to 7.2

Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Mikael Bak writes: > >> I would like to do a binary upgrade from 7.1 to 7.2. I've seen the >> instructions here: >> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.2R/announce.html >> Miroslav, Robert, Lowell, Thank you all for the useful inform

Upgrade FreeBSD 7.1 to 7.2

Hi list, I would like to do a binary upgrade from 7.1 to 7.2. I've seen the instructions here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.2R/announce.html I've heard that it's safest to start the machine in single user mode when doing upgrades, but I see no notice about it in the announcement. So my ques

Re: Adding multiipul virtual domains?

ALLnetgroup wrote: > The server has 1 domain name already setup along with: > > sendmail > Webmin > Apache Web Server > MySQL > Apache Tomcat > Squid Proxy > SOCKS5 > PERL > Mod PERL > PHP > OpenSSH > phpBB > RoundCube WebMail > > When I add a new virtual host I would like the host to have it'

Re: PXE boot FreeBSD without need of NFS server

Pertti, András, Thank You for the useful links! Kiitos and Köszönöm szépen :-) Gót András wrote: > Hi, > > AFAIK only the kernel and initrd (in the linux case) can be booted from > tftp, that's a PXE feature. When the kernel loaded it takes over and from > then on the kernel will need a rootfs f

PXE boot FreeBSD without need of NFS server

vises are greatly appreciated. TIA, Mikael Bak Budapest, Hungary ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: mydns-mysql starts before mysql has finished starting

Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > It looks to be: > MAINTAINER= a...@freebsd.org > Alfred, Simon, Andrew, Thanks for the fast responses. I have contacted the maintainer on the above address. Thanks, Mikael ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

mydns-mysql starts before mysql has finished starting

an do. Should I perhaps contact the port maintainer? How do I reach him/her? TIA, Mikael Bak Budapest, Hungary ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "free