From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 12 03:27:11 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5C8816A4F1 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 03:27:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailbox.netcommplete.com.au (mailbox.netcommplete.com.au [203.41.55.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51E0143D46 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 03:27:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from smuller@netcommplete.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost.netcommplete.com.au [127.0.0.1]) by mailbox.netcommplete.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53C72F7524; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:27:26 +1000 (EST) Received: from mailbox.netcommplete.com.au ([127.0.0.1])port 10024) with LMTP id 71022-02-2; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:27:25 +1000 (EST) Received: from [192.168.100.114] (bash-head.netcommplete.lan [192.168.100.114]) by mailbox.netcommplete.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C84DF7447; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:27:24 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <425B400B.60904@netcommplete.com.au> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:27:07 +1000 From: Scott Muller Organization: NetCommplete Pty Ltd User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris McElroy References: <200504112216161.SM01492@KrisLaptop> In-Reply-To: <200504112216161.SM01492@KrisLaptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new_maia at netcommplete.com.au cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: smuller@netcommplete.com.au List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 03:27:12 -0000 Kris McElroy wrote: > First things I am a newb to FreeBSD and have made strides coming from > windows. There are a few things that I am unsure about, or need some > direction on. > > I am currently running: FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE #0 and I would like to make > sure that it is up to date with all the necessary patches, security fixes, > etc... I have read up on CVSup but I am unclear of how to actually use it. > Can someone give me some examples? I do not have any xwindow systems > installed, command line only. > Kris, have a look in /usr/share/examples/cvsup for same example files on running cvsup. man cvsup is also useful. here is an example supfile *default host=cvsup2.au.freebsd.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_3 *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress ports-all tag=. src-all This will update src and ports. Change the release and host tags to suit. have a look at /usr/ports/sysutils/fastest_cvsup port to help locate the fastest cvsup server. Run cvsup like so cvsup -g -L 2 /patch/to/supfile and you can watch the files that get updated etc. To update your system check the handbook as well as the README and UPDATING files in /usr/src HTH -- Scott Muller