Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:55:30 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Can one Download Old Packages? Message-ID: <20110110185530.GE75125@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <201101101740.p0AHeVIf026271@x.it.okstate.edu> References: <201101101740.p0AHeVIf026271@x.it.okstate.edu>
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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
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