FreeBSD 4.8 is out!

[LuckyTaxi]

It's here! Finally!!!

 

[Inrimoza]

And I just free'd up a box to have some fun with... what timing.

Still running 4.6 on my mail server with all the patches so maybe it's time to try something a bit newer.

thx fo rthe heads up.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

No problem. I've been waiting for it since March 24th!!! I was starting to lose faith with them, but I understand
they have to get rid of the bugs!!!!

I just installed a new server running 4.7, so I doubt I will be upgrading. But my laptop needs a new OS.
I think I can rig that up with 4.8

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

I tried rc3 but it didn't like my usb keyboard, nor did [adduser|useradd] (I can never remember which is which) work correctly. :-/

 

[andrey]

Thanks!

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
I tried rc3 but it didn't like my usb keyboard, nor did [adduser|useradd] (I can never remember which is which) work correctly. :-/

That's because USB keyboards are lame.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
I tried rc3 but it didn't like my usb keyboard, nor did [adduser|useradd] (I can never remember which is which) work correctly. :-/

That's because USB keyboards are lame.

Yeah, but wireless keyboards are all usb, and I got this one for free

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
I tried rc3 but it didn't like my usb keyboard, nor did [adduser|useradd] (I can never remember which is which) work correctly. :-/

That's because USB keyboards are lame.

Yeah, but wireless keyboards are all usb, and I got this one for free

Free stuff is good. Free stuff has been one of my inspirations for moving to SCSI

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
I tried rc3 but it didn't like my usb keyboard, nor did [adduser|useradd] (I can never remember which is which) work correctly. :-/

That's because USB keyboards are lame.

Yeah, but wireless keyboards are all usb, and I got this one for free

Free stuff is good. Free stuff has been one of my inspirations for moving to SCSI

And the adduser/useradd problem was pretty interesting. I got all the info entered and it just started asking for my username over and over again.

Please enter a username [death]: death
Please enter a username [death]: death
Please enter a username [death]: foo
Please enter a username [foo]: death
Please enter a username [death]: WTF
Please enter a username [WTF]: DIE!
^C^C^C

My memory is a bit rusty but it was something like that.

 

[Booter]

Originally posted by: lilcam
No problem. I've been waiting for it since March 24th!!! I was starting to lose faith with them, but I understand
they have to get rid of the bugs!!!!

I just installed a new server running 4.7, so I doubt I will be upgrading. But my laptop needs a new OS.
I think I can rig that up with 4.8

good news thanks, 4.8 is going right into my lap also

 

[xyyz]

it's a good thing i didn't burn the 4.7 iso.

when is the release date for 4.9? anyone have a link to that information?

 

[LuckyTaxi]

BingBongWongFooey - Did you try 'adduser -s'

It looks like they might be skipping 4.9 to work on 5.1, therefore making 5.0 the ideal release!

Link

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: lilcam
BingBongWongFooey - Did you try 'adduser -s'

No idea, I don't remember. I of course rtfm'd a bit but I'm not sure exactly what all I tried.

 

[TheOmegaCode]

Please enter a username [death]: death
Please enter a username [death]: death
Please enter a username [death]: foo
Please enter a username [foo]: death
Please enter a username [death]: WTF
Please enter a username [WTF]: DIE!
^C^C^C

isn't it supposed to look like "Please enter a username [a-z_0-9]: death"
I know I screwed that up once and it took me a few minutes to figure it out.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: TheOmegaCode

Please enter a username [death]: death
Please enter a username [death]: death
Please enter a username [death]: foo
Please enter a username [foo]: death
Please enter a username [death]: WTF
Please enter a username [WTF]: DIE!
^C^C^C

isn't it supposed to look like "Please enter a username [a-z_0-9]: death"
I know I screwed that up once and it took me a few minutes to figure it out.

Honestly I don't remember too well, all I know is that no matter what it just kept prompting me infinitely, if I was so stupid as to not realize that I was doing something wrong, then I fear that a huge number of people would do the same.

 

[TheOmegaCode]

Yeah, I'm sure it is a mistake that a lot of people make. I made it too

Not that it's any big deal, but I think I just restored my /etc/adduser.conf so it would read [a-z0-9_-] again. I don't for the life of me remember how I messed it up though...

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: TheOmegaCode
Yeah, I'm sure it is a mistake that a lot of people make. I made it too

Not that it's any big deal, but I think I just restored my /etc/adduser.conf so it would read [a-z0-9_-] again. I don't for the life of me remember how I messed it up though...

No I think its totally seperate from that. At the beginning it asks for a username and shows you that regex. I put in the username, went through the questions, then at the very end, it all of a sudden asked for the username again. I used "death" and it had that in brackets as if it was the default. So I hit enter, it asks me again, so I enter "death" and it just asks me again. Definitely not normal. It had no reason to ask me anyways, I already answered.

 

[TheOmegaCode]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: TheOmegaCode
Yeah, I'm sure it is a mistake that a lot of people make. I made it too

Not that it's any big deal, but I think I just restored my /etc/adduser.conf so it would read [a-z0-9_-] again. I don't for the life of me remember how I messed it up though...

No I think its totally seperate from that. At the beginning it asks for a username and shows you that regex. I put in the username, went through the questions, then at the very end, it all of a sudden asked for the username again. I used "death" and it had that in brackets as if it was the default. So I hit enter, it asks me again, so I enter "death" and it just asks me again. Definitely not normal. It had no reason to ask me anyways, I already answered.

That's what mine was doing. It asked for something like characters available for the username, I misread it as username, and typed elan. Then it asked for username and instead of [a-z0-9_-] it said [elan] and it wouldn't accept anything I typed. It might be a different issue, but it sounds an awful lot like what happened to me...

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: TheOmegaCode

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: TheOmegaCode
Yeah, I'm sure it is a mistake that a lot of people make. I made it too

Not that it's any big deal, but I think I just restored my /etc/adduser.conf so it would read [a-z0-9_-] again. I don't for the life of me remember how I messed it up though...

No I think its totally seperate from that. At the beginning it asks for a username and shows you that regex. I put in the username, went through the questions, then at the very end, it all of a sudden asked for the username again. I used "death" and it had that in brackets as if it was the default. So I hit enter, it asks me again, so I enter "death" and it just asks me again. Definitely not normal. It had no reason to ask me anyways, I already answered.

That's what mine was doing. It asked for something like characters available for the username, I misread it as username, and typed elan. Then it asked for username and instead of [a-z0-9_-] it said [elan] and it wouldn't accept anything I typed. It might be a different issue, but it sounds an awful lot like what happened to me...

Ah well either way it's weird. I installed 4.7 some time ago and don't remember that happening. You'd think that a total nerd would be able to do something as simple as adding a user