From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 13 23:23:26 2008 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 EE3E81065698 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:23:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fcondo@quinn.com) Received: from sushi.quinn.com (sushi.quinn.com [216.27.181.95]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA90A8FC0A for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:23:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fcondo@quinn.com) Received: from earth-pea.quinn.com (sashimi.quinn.com [216.27.181.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by sushi.quinn.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m9DNNQGT085072 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:23:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fcondo@quinn.com) Message-Id: <9D75F558-DD70-4E41-95C2-53808B021EC2@quinn.com> From: Fred Condo To: Gary Kline In-Reply-To: <20081010232131.GA53191@thought.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:23:26 -0700 References: <20081010232131.GA53191@thought.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: an even dumber q: how do i get sage's ports-ypgrade working? 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, 13 Oct 2008 23:23:27 -0000 On Oct 10, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > Late last December my small network began falling apart. Still > not sure how, but a fellow from Dallas came to my rescue and from > his home, slowly rebuilt and re-configured everything. E.g.: for > one thing, where I hack sendmail working via various kludges, he > set up imap. I had thought that was mostly for students.... > > He also filled me in on jails. Previously, I had my 1998 Kayak > doing DNS and mail and web solo. Jon created a jail and set > things up there. He used NFS to bring over things from a faster > computer. That's well and good; it makes sense to compile a > suite that takes days on sage [Kayak @ 400MHz] on my Dell8200 > [2.4GHZ]. A few days ago I realized that I was missing some > simple programs on sage. I went into ports: empty. Years ago > there was a standalone script that let you fix or tune things. > I thought it was on the hard drive as well as the CD set. > > Anybody? > > thanks for any clues! > > gary > > > > -- > Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public > Service Unix > http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org You don't mention which version of FreeBSD you're using, but if it's at all recent, portsnap is your friend: # mkdir -p /usr/ports && portsnap fetch extract # Do this once to fetch and set up the ports collection initially Then add this to root's crontab: 1 3 * * * /usr/sbin/portsnap cron update If portsnap is not on your system, you should probably upgrade, but you could try the packagge: # pkg_add -r portsnap Also, if you're administering a bunch of jails, ezjail is also your friend. See http://erdgeist.org/arts/software/ezjail/ (website is a bit out of date; 3.0 is released and in the ports collection).