From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 19 06:53:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29E0316A4CE for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 06:53:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.sisna.com (mailx.sisna.com [216.126.204.104]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E745843D5E for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 06:53:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from josh222@sisna.com) Received: from [192.168.1.2] [67.172.253.240] by mail.sisna.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.12) id AE5CBCD00FA; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 00:53:16 -0600 Message-ID: <41245489.9030208@sisna.com> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 01:19:37 -0600 From: Josh Hansen User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040626) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Curtis Vaughan References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using cvsup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 06:53:17 -0000 like someone mentioned, it doesnt matter where you put it. my supfile is in /root, but its just preference. ive noticed you keep mentioning that you wont be using X, and you are thinking you need to deinstall your cvsup or something... you dont have to do that, just use use -g when running cvsup to tell it not to use a gui. for example, cvsup -g -L 2 path/to/supfile Curtis Vaughan wrote: > I'm a little confused about using cvsup. I'm referring to 2 resources > (The Complete FreeBSD - 4th edition, and www,freebsd.org manual for > cvsup). BTW, I currently have FreeBSD 4.8 installed. > > Ok, so, I know I need to edit a supfile and I have found all the > examples. But it seems to me that it is advisable to put my own edited > supfile in a particular directory. What is the best or more common > practice? > Maybe in the base directory: i.e., /usr/local/etc/cvsup/ ? > > Note that I will not be using the gui. I have not installed X windows > (XFree86) as this is to be a server and I no intention of using any > gui interface. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"