From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 5 23:52:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFD7A37B405 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 23:52:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9344C43E70 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 23:52:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (7932f86e60b3a89e146e7d2ba951c6e5@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g766qMNs016509; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 23:52:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 23:52:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Desmond Lee Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: updating to latest stable version In-Reply-To: <20020804210351.44995.qmail@web20904.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, Desmond Lee wrote: > Hi there > > I'm new to free bsd and i'm using "freebsd an open > source operatin system for your personal computer" as > my guide. > > It says to sign up to this mailing list and then after > doing a '/usr/share/examples/cvsup #cvsup -g -L2 > stable-suppfile' to check messages from this mailing > list? > > Is this list suppose to update me on any errors once i > executed the command above? Since the book you're using is the one I wrote, I hope I can help with this. The mailing list is supposed to inform you of any new problems; you have to read the messages, of course, and there are lots of them. > Oh... and does anyone know why the following doesn't > work? > 'cvsup -g -L2 stabel-supfile >stable.out 2>&1&' > It says 'ambiguous output direct' My guess is you're using the csh shell for root instead of bash (which is what the book uses). Try cvsup -g -L2 stable-supfile >& stable.out & for the csh shell--I assume you're spelling stuff right at the command line. Hope that helps. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message