From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 14 02:12:14 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 49F111065695 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:12:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D81898FC25 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:12:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m9E2CFom054911; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:12:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:11:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:11:56 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Fred Condo Message-ID: <20081014021156.GB38296@thought.org> References: <20081010232131.GA53191@thought.org> <9D75F558-DD70-4E41-95C2-53808B021EC2@quinn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9D75F558-DD70-4E41-95C2-53808B021EC2@quinn.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00, DNS_FROM_SECURITYSAGE autolearn=no version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org 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: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:12:14 -0000 On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 04:23:26PM -0700, Fred Condo wrote: > > 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). > YES! Thanks for this fix. Now I'm back in control of my main (and *old*) server. --I believe it was/is 7.0 or nearly. gary > > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org