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On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:15:58 -0800, Noah <admin2@enabled.com> wrote:
> okay thank you,
> 
> do you know of a command that can show me all the ports that are installed on
> my machine?  

% ls /var/db/pkg | more

> is there a nice tutorial that explains how to use the ports
> efficiently and safetly?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html

and

% man portupgrade(1)

after you've installed portupgrade, of course ;)


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Joshua Lokken
Open Source Advocate