stunnel – encryption and security I’m about to enter into a business relationship with a west coast hosting company. They actually gave me the box just over two months ago, but various things have prevented us from completing the deal. For the most part, the delay has been because of other commitments and project planning. …
ERROR: version of config(8) does not match kernel! I’ve seen this problem occur with other people when I was upgrading from 4.4 to 4.5. And now I’ve encountered this joy. Personally, I blame my not being on a bike since early December. That’s two months without a ride! In reality, I noticed that the FreshPorts2 …
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cvsup bug fix and upgrading to 4.4 The Billionium came and went and few people noticed. But all cvsup mirrors noticed. And so did some cvsup clients. On Sun Sep 9 01:46:40 UTC 2001, the Unix date changed from 999,999,999 to 1,000,000,000. This uncovered a long-standing bug in CVSup. The bug places a heavy load …
Creating your own cvsupd server With the upcoming work I’m going to be doing on FreshPorts, I thought it best to start up a cvsup server for the source code. This server will be used to share the data amongst the other FreshPorts developers. This article starts that process. I first wrote about cvsupd on …
How long does it take to upgrade via cvsup? One of the most powerful features of FreeBSD is the upgrade facility. cvsup is a great tool when it comes to upgrading your source code. I was in the process of upgrading a friend’s box from 4.0-RELEASE to 4.1-STABLE. That’s when I thought it might …
The make-world script Do you remember that makefile I had for my upgrade from FreeBSD 4.0-Release to FreeBSD 4.0-Stable. Well, gill wrote in with an improvement. It doesn’t make things any faster. But it does make the script easier to configure. I’ve updated the old script with his changes and the script is available here. …
Upgrading to 4.1-STABLE – things to watch out for Today I finished upgrading the freshports box to 4.1-STABLE. If you are upgrading to 4.1, you should be aware of a potential gotcha. During the first boot under 4.1-STABLE, you’ll probably see this message: Generating DSA parameter and key. and the box will appear to hang. …
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FreeBSD 4.0-stable crypto is fuggered for international users This problem has now been fixed. Skip to the last section of this article. I found out the hard way that FreeBSD 4.0-stable is not working for international users. Now that’s an overstatement, but the problem has added 48 hours to the time it will take me …
FreeBSD 4.0-stable crypto is fuggered for international users This problem has now been fixed. Skip to the last section of this article. I found out the hard way that FreeBSD 4.0-stable is not working for international users. Now that’s an overstatement, but the problem has added 48 hours to the time it will take me …
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How to refuse stuff using cvsup If you are cvsup‘ing, sometimes you don’t want everything. That’s where a refuse file comes in. This article show how I used a restrict the data transferred. For more information about cvsup, see the cvsup section of the topics age. The FAQ is your friend John Polstra is the …