From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 22 14:13:44 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 041E516A4B3 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:13:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BBAA43FFB for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:13:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: by chen.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CF66A1364C; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 09:13:41 +1200 (NZST) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 09:13:41 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Brent Bailey Message-ID: <20030922211341.GA61252@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <29398.207.5.142.198.1064243892.squirrel@bmyster.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <29398.207.5.142.198.1064243892.squirrel@bmyster.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSUP howto ??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 21:13:44 -0000 On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 11:18:12AM -0400, Brent Bailey wrote: > 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 That's because you built the kernel, but did not install it; however, you installed the userland binaries, and so you now have the classic "userland not in sync with kernel" problem. -- Jonathan Chen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by" - Douglas Adams