Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

Erich Dollansky erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com
Sun Jan 27 08:38:51 UTC 2013


Hi,

On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:15:09 +0100
"Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com> wrote:

> Good morning,

ood morning? The sun is settling soon!
> 
> if I run 'make deinstall reinstall' for a port, it doesn't ask a
> single question, at least not for dbus.
> 
> # ls -l /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 rocketmouse  wheel  377744 Jan 18 22:44  
> /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon
> 
> # cd /usr/ports/devel/dbus ; make deinstall reinstall
> 
> # ls -l /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  377744 Jan 27
> 08:55 /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon
> 
> Is there a command to deinstall and reinstall all ports or an idea
> for a script to do it?
> 
Check portupgrade or one of other utilities to handle ports. There is
one option to force an upgrade even if it would be a downgrade.

> Do I have to reboot into single user mode and then to run "make  
> installworld" only to reinstall world?

No, you just run it as root. It should work afterword except for
currently running programs.

Erich


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