From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 4 15:47: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8228137B400 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 15:46:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from viefep12-int.chello.at (viefep12-int.chello.at [213.46.255.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29F7943E4A for ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 15:46:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ant@overclockers.at) Received: from Deadcell.ant ([212.17.108.240]) by viefep12-int.chello.at (InterMail vM.5.01.03.06 201-253-122-118-106-20010523) with ESMTP id <20020804224654.KYDA1248.viefep12-int.chello.at@Deadcell.ant>; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 00:46:54 +0200 Received: from Deadcell.ant (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Deadcell.ant (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g74MkrhY049169; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 00:46:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ant@Deadcell.ant) Received: (from ant@localhost) by Deadcell.ant (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g74MkmAs049168; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 00:46:48 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 00:46:47 +0200 From: Andreas Ntaflos To: Desmond Lee Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: updating to latest stable version Message-ID: <20020804224647.GC11668@Deadcell.ant> References: <20020804210351.44995.qmail@web20904.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020804210351.44995.qmail@web20904.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 02:03:51PM -0700, Desmond Lee wrote: > Hi there Hello! > > I'm new to free bsd and i'm using "freebsd an open > source operatin system for your personal computer" as > my guide. I heard that's a good book for beginners! But I also recommend reading the following: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html and the handbook at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html > > It says to sign up to this mailing list and then after > doing a '/usr/share/examples/cvsup #cvsup -g -L2 > stable-suppfile' to check messages from this mailing > list? This is one of the many official mailing lists for FreeBSD and used by FreeBSD users to support each other when having FreeBSD-related problems and for discussion about pretty much everything FreeBSD. See http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#mailing-list and http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL for all the mailing lists available. > Is this list suppose to update me on any errors once i > executed the command above? Well, no. But when you have a problem with FreeBSD and can't find any solution by yourself, the FAQ or on the archives of this list, you might post the problem description here and very likely, you'll get a useful response. BTW, you should be sending such mails to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org since it's "User questions and technical support". > Oh... and does anyone know why the following doesn't > work? > 'cvsup -g -L2 stabel-supfile >stable.out 2>&1&' > It says 'ambiguous output direct' This is because the default shell FreeBSD gives you after installation is tcsh and not bash. The above would work on a bash shell I suppose, for tcsh (or csh, its predecessor) you might want to use something like 'cvsup -L2 -g stable-supfile >& stable.out &'. I urge you to read the handbook. Pretty much everything you're going to need to know is covered there. Upgrading to the latest -stable is not as trivial as cvsup'ing your sources, but not much more difficult either. Read the handbook and your book, paying special attention to the chapters about upgrading sources and upgrading FreeBSD. HTH -- Andreas "ant" Ntaflos ant@overclockers.at Vienna, AUSTRIA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message