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Date:      Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:37:32 -0500
From:      Roger <rnodal@gmail.com>
To:        Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk>, Roger <rnodal@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help understanding basic FreeBSD concepts (ports, updates, jails)
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In-Reply-To: <20091107202052.GA92497@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk>
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On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> wrote:

> You mentioned lsof but there is a utility in base which you probably
> don't know about called fstat(1), which does a lot of what lsof does.
>

Thank you for the tip. I will definitely look into it.

> IIRC, the sources for 7.2 should be on the CD (run sysinstall(8) after
> sticking the CD in). That will save you from downloading all the
> sources.
>
> Then update the sources with csup(1) using the correct tag: RELENG_7_2
>
> There's a supfile, /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile, which
> you can change the default host and cvs tag of and it should work.
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html
>
> goes into the details.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
>
> =A0Frank
>
> =A0Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
>
>
>



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