From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 22 08:14:24 2003 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 3A14416A4B3 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:14:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bmyster.com (loqtis.bmyster.com [65.162.190.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9864A43FE9 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:14:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mrb@bmyster.com) Received: from loqtis.bmyster.com (localhost.bmyster.com [127.0.0.1]) by bmyster.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h8MFIHSv007650 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:18:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from www@localhost) by loqtis.bmyster.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id h8MFIC6w007649; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:18:12 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: loqtis.bmyster.com: www set sender to mrb@bmyster.com using -f Received: from 207.5.142.198 (SquirrelMail authenticated user mrb) by bmyster.com with HTTP; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:18:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <29398.207.5.142.198.1064243892.squirrel@bmyster.com> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:18:12 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brent Bailey" To: questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Subject: CVSUP howto ??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: mrb@bmyster.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:14:24 -0000 I was looking aroung trying to find a decent howto on CVSUP...seeing as ive never had good luck with it .. i found this ...does this look like the right procedure ?? this is what ive been doing ...but ive only had it actually work one time ..all other systems ive done this on,,,it has failed BADLY hence cant do "ps" or "w" or other needed commands Create /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/supfile: *default host=cvsup8.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all ports-all tag=. then let cvs run in crontab and get all the new src... then did: cd /usr/src make buildworld make buildkernel kernconf={kern conf name} (optional--boot into single user mode) make installworld mergemaster -p please help ...as i need to update a whole bunch of systems because of the latest cert releases... thanx -- Brent Bailey CCNA Bmyster LLC Computer Networking and Webhosting Network Engineer, Webmaster, President http://www.bmyster.com mrb@bmyster.com 207-247-8330