From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 2 19: 7:54 2002 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 9D8D637B401 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 19:07:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from sage-one.net (adsl-65-71-135-137.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [65.71.135.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99A2443EB2 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 19:07:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Received: from sagea (sagea [192.168.0.3]) by sage-one.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id gB337gd63778; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 21:07:43 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20021202210742.01201970@mail.sage-one.net> X-Sender: jackstone@mail.sage-one.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 21:07:42 -0600 To: Jud From: "Jack L. Stone" Subject: Re: location for supfiles Cc: b1henning@hotmail.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20021202220032.425a8273.judmarc@fastmail.fm> References: <3.0.5.32.20021202174203.01201970@mail.sage-one.net> <3.0.5.32.20021202174203.01201970@mail.sage-one.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:00 PM 12.2.2002 -0500, Jud wrote: >On Mon, 02 Dec 2002 17:42:03 -0600 >"Jack L. Stone" wrote: > >> At 05:18 PM 12.2.2002 -0600, Brian Henning wrote: >> >Hello, >> >I have been using cvsup for a while now. I typically put the >> >ports-supfile and the other supfiles in /root. Is this a good place >> >for it? where do most admins put these kind of files? any good ideas? >> > >> >thanks, >> >brian >> > >> >> Usually in "/usr/src" > >Purely for the sake of personal convenience, in my home directory, >because when I cvsup I usually login with the intent of doing so. With >the cvsup flags line in /etc/make.conf uncommented, it's a matter of >login, su to root, then > ># cvsup [supfile] > >Jud > Actually, I use a script and just type in the name of the script (as root from anywhere at the prompt) and it find the "-supfile" in the built-in path. So, there are lots of ways -- just a matter of personal preference as long as it executes. Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message