Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:26:15 -0500 From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> To: Randi Harper <randi@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no sshd on new server... Message-ID: <4ad871310911192026t61ad6e99kffea52f49cfa6c10@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <e277d6c80911191821v7c762a59g788d711ead0470@mail.gmail.com> References: <20091116010014.f3ca28de.freebsd@edvax.de> <20091116231236.GA15714@thought.org> <20091117160117.12c71262.freebsd@edvax.de> <20091117174540.GB19113@thought.org> <4B02E346.3070209@otenet.gr> <20091117223844.GA19855@thought.org> <20091118221916.5852d938.freebsd@edvax.de> <20091118213320.GA23997@thought.org> <20091118231246.GB24254@thought.org> <e277d6c80911191821v7c762a59g788d711ead0470@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Randi Harper <randi@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote: > >> >> no joy on 8.0rcx. >> >> i got stuck in an infinite loop and decided to go back to my 7.2 >> DVD. >> there i know i can get out to the net ; i always installed zsh. >> >> there are TWO kinds of gateways. one gateway is my local 10.47.0.1; >> the other is my wide area 209.* that runs thru my pfsense firewall. >> >> i =am= getting more familiar with this rats nets of details. i t >> hink we are severely oversue for a better way of doing a barebone >> install on virgin hardware..... >> >> =sigh= >> >> > This makes so little sense that I'm actually kind of amazed. > > 1.) infinite loop? explain? > > 2.) what does zsh have to do with getting out to the internet? > I presume he was either able to pkg_add(1) the binary or build from ports, which assumes network connectivity in either case - either downloading the binary installer or the source. > 3.) wtf is a "barebone install on virgin hardware"? What have you been doing > to your hardware that you have specific definitions of virgin and not virgin > hardware? > Allow me, speaking entirely on behalf of myself, to translate this to "minimal install." > sysinstall has had some changes since 7.x, but no changes that would have > affected network service configuration (yet). You ran through the install > and didn't bother reading all of the dialogs before hitting enter, so you > don't have ssh installed. Good job. Don't blame FreeBSD for your ineptitude. > Is this really necessary? -- Glen Barber
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