From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 10 18:55:36 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28BD8106566B for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:55:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email2.allantgroup.com (email2.emsphone.com [199.67.51.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2C898FC1B for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:55:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by email2.allantgroup.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p0AItVPt012656 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:55:31 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p0AItV0Q094755 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:55:31 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p0AItUYW094754; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:55:30 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:55:30 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Martin McCormick Message-ID: <20110110185530.GE75125@dan.emsphone.com> References: <201101101740.p0AHeVIf026271@x.it.okstate.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201101101740.p0AHeVIf026271@x.it.okstate.edu> X-OS: FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96.4 at email2.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (email2.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:55:31 -0600 (CST) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 199.67.51.78 Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Can one Download Old Packages? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:55:36 -0000 In the last episode (Jan 10), Martin McCormick said: > Is there a safe site to find the rsync package for FreeBSD6.3? We > still have a few 6.3 systems around because the commercial backup client > we have for an enterprise-wide solution will not install on FreeBSD8.1? > > This is one of those times when we are fighting the war with what we > presently have rather than what we wish we had. > > I must restore the /dev directory on a 6.3 system and rsync would > have done it hours ago but I didn't know that the few remaining 6.3 > systems didn't have it installed. Actually, /dev has been managed by the devfs virtual filesystem driver since FreeBSD 5 (maybe even before that), so a reboot should repopulate /dev with the correct data. There shouldn't be anything that rsync would be able to sync. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com