Help understanding basic FreeBSD concepts (ports, updates, jails)

[Roger]

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Frank Shute <frank at 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,
>
> --
>
>  Frank
>
>  Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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