From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 25 19:03:17 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B368C996 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 19:03:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sam.nabble.com (sam.nabble.com [216.139.236.26]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 92797228A for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 19:03:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.236.26] (helo=sam.nabble.com) by sam.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1XAklv-0006Pg-HA for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:03:15 -0700 Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:03:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Beeblebrox To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20140725220234.0e4eae5b@rsbsd.rsb> In-Reply-To: <53D2A73D.3010404@sasktel.net> References: <1406282699515-5931653.post@n5.nabble.com> <53D2A73D.3010404@sasktel.net> Subject: Re: Several minor annoyances on Current MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 19:03:17 -0000 Hi > I use this in /etc/sysctl.conf: > kern.corefile=/tmp/cores/%N.core In rc.conf I have clear_tmp_enable="YES" I would have used tmpfs for /tmp but my zpool/tmp is on an SSD which gives about the same result as f Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F2B2BD3B; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 19:14:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-x229.google.com (mail-lb0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c04::229]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0BF212376; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 19:14:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f169.google.com with SMTP id s7so3784642lbd.0 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:13:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=Op3BEIvZgmP+rAaNIHVNwxPEToy9fRiUKMNIk/l87as=; b=Bw/vpL35wFAEp333Y4fWH3yFHAWDUAciGZcyhn/i+lxiUz0OObPOrydXeL3mSajtLi usbEKvwndHJ19iT91CUm6t17iYjJW7McN4bT3BO+/E4g9DHfPKJsmJuh162OnQH4hSFR ydW/1oq3raC2MiZcMcMmr33b9NqUGygTKWkKN8KaKuc/mqC+I9MGpLn/CwKW/3tv+Lcs m6fuHdHI6Ju9XYopQbXkGy4Aww2DvRYgtc9Q9l4yMS1DX4Uh7wgeXXbTbSx4N/SlaOmI ODbIPTMVHvA9esifKARP4WoXQJD9RmDcu4/JHsSBgQTfc+cjyHqq91zp/LutyZOkjOKn n3ow== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.16.199 with SMTP id i7mr17874599lbd.5.1406315638490; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:13:58 -0700 (PDT) Sender: crodr001@gmail.com Received: by 10.112.225.34 with HTTP; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:13:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:13:58 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: q519awezHA1b9WBVwpJhrhpj8IU Message-ID: Subject: Re: HOWTO articles for migrating from Linux to FreeBSD, especially for pkg? From: Craig Rodrigues To: freebsd-current Current , ports , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 19:14:02 -0000 On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > > For (2), encouraging people to move away from Linux to FreeBSD > on the server, may be something where we can get more wins. > I think we can do this by having more HOWTO articles on > the FreeBSD web page that explain the following: > > > (1) We need a HOWTO article that explains for each command using apt > or yum for installing packages, > how can I do the same thing using "pkg". > Even if we have a web page with a table, contrasting the > apt/yum commands, and pkg commands, that would be super > useful. > > A lot of folks have moved away from FreeBSD, purely because > they are sick of pkg_add. We need to explain to folks that > we have something better, that is quite competitive to > apt/yum, and it is easy to use. > > (2) We need a HOWTO article that explains how to set up > a FreeBSD environment with some of the major cloud providers, > i.e. Amazon, Rackspace, Microsoft Azure, etc. > > > > Hi, While I appreciate the enthusiasm of the responses to this e-mail thread, especially the patches to service(8), I feel that my original e-mail was hijacked into the weeds, and none of the questions that I asked were answered. :) So, I am assuming that no one is working on the HOWTO's that I mentioned in my original e-mail. :) In the latest edition of BSDNow ( http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_07_23-des_challenge_iv ), they refer to a blog article where someone who was used to Linux posted their experience setting up FreeBSD: http://thiagoperrotta.wordpress.com/2014/07/20/here-be-dragons-freebsd-overview-part-i/ http://thiagoperrotta.wordpress.com/2014/07/21/here-be-packages-freebsd-overview-part-ii/ The Part II article goes in-depth into installing packages, and the user had a positive experience with using pkg, which is great. What I'd like to see is an article on freebsd.org either on the wiki or in the handbook, which compares using apt, yum, rpm, whatever to pkg. Is anyone interested in working on an article like this? I don't have the bandwidth right now. -- Craig