Sometimes, when a new kernel or application that I use a lot comes out, I want to quickly download and test it on my system. It is simple enough to edit /etc/pacman.conf and enable the testing repositories, then update your system. Problem is, enabling the testing and/or …

Thanks to: http://scottspare.com/bsdfun/?p=75 for pointing me in the right direction. Compiling port updates can take a while and slow down your server. What you can do is use the 'nice' utility to force the processes to a lower priority. This will help your server to …

So the spanking new freebsd-update doesn't work for sparc systems... boo. Have to do everything manually. Here's what I remember. Let me know if I forgot something, or its wrong.(very likely)

Install cvsup:

# cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui/
# make install

install fastest cvsup:

# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/fastest_cvsup …

Why? Because i'm lazy. I'll update this to see if it works

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#!/bin/sh
#your current site will be backed up to your home folder with the date in the name
#change this …

So FreeBSD's time is out of wack. Two options:

1. ntpdate. This is manual. To run a time sync manually, just run

   ntpdate -b pool.ntp.org

You can replace pool.ntp.org with whatever you want. To tell it to run whenever the system is booted, add this to /etc …