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# 303975 11-Aug-2016 gjb

Copy stable/11@r303970 to releng/11.0 as part of the 11.0-RELEASE
cycle.

Prune svn:mergeinfo from the new branch, and rename it to RC1.

Update __FreeBSD_version.

Use the quarterly branch for the default FreeBSD.conf pkg(8) repo and
the dvd1.iso packages population.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 302408 08-Jul-2016 gjb

Copy head@r302406 to stable/11 as part of the 11.0-RELEASE cycle.
Prune svn:mergeinfo from the new branch, as nothing has been merged
here.

Additional commits post-branch will follow.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 288485 02-Oct-2015 cperciva

Final step of eliminating the "games" distribution: Merge src/games
(or what's left of it, at least) into src/usr.bin.

This change will not be MFCed.

Discussed at: EuroBSDCon 2014
Committed from: EuroBSDCon 2015


# 287582 08-Sep-2015 allanjude

Correctly case FreeBSD in my entry in the tips file

Submitted by: feld
Approved by: wblock (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3601


# 278543 10-Feb-2015 jmg

fetch has supported https for a while..

I would convert the url to https, but we still don't install a CA set
by default... we even don't install the CA that authenticates
www.FreeBSD.org..


# 269089 25-Jul-2014 allanjude

Update the freebsd-tips example to use drill instead of dig since bind is no longer in base

CR: D460
Approved by: bcr (mentor)


# 256019 03-Oct-2013 glebius

Refresh the tips for the new pkg system.

Reviewed by: bapt
Approved by: re (hrs)


# 248580 21-Mar-2013 eadler

Remove a reference to instant-server which has been removed from the
ports tree in r313427.

PR: 177012
Submitted by: Kevin Zheng <kevinz5000@gmail.com>
Approved by: bcr (mentor)


# 241934 23-Oct-2012 eadler

Remove extra word:

Submitted by: many
Approved by: cperciva (implicit)
MFC after: 3 days


# 241845 22-Oct-2012 eadler

Sysinstall has been removed from base.

Approved by: cperciva


# 241116 02-Oct-2012 eadler

Correct the tip about finding all the directories on the system
Add a tip about clearing the screen.
Make things more consistent by removing quotes around 'make search'

Approved by: cperciva
MFC after: 3 days


# 235227 10-May-2012 eadler

Partial revert of previous commit as some of the changes were not
newbie-friendly.

Requested by: jhb, gcooper
Approved by: cperciva (implicit)
MFC after: 3 days
X-MFC-With: r235209


# 235209 09-May-2012 eadler

Add a few new tips and update some old ones to more modern commands

MFC after: 1 week


# 211094 09-Aug-2010 fjoe

"whereis netscape" gives empty output for quite a long time already.
Suggest to use "whereis firefox" instead.


# 202115 11-Jan-2010 gavin

Our standard "xterm" termcap entry supports colour, so this tip is redundant.
As it happens, "xterm-color" has just been an alias for "xterm" since
src/share/termcap/termcap.src 1.131 in September 2002.

PR: docs/132959
Approved by: ed (mentor)


# 187110 12-Jan-2009 simon

netcat is "now" in base, so point people at nc(1) instead of the port.

MFC after: 1 week


# 179459 31-May-2008 remko

Remove a quote about the instant-workstation, this port
has been removed ages ago.

PR: docs/124166
Submitted by: keramida
Prodded by: novel,keramida


# 174429 08-Dec-2007 dougb

The ../tools/do_sort script could not differentiate between
a few very slightly diffrent versions of tcsh prompts, so
restore the 2 that were lost, and consolidate them all in
a way that will prevent them from being lost again.


# 174425 07-Dec-2007 dougb

Sort these files using: sh ../tools/do_sort < $file > $file.sorted

This greatly aids in detecting duplicates, among other things.


# 174422 07-Dec-2007 dougb

This is a massive cleanup of the fortune files, including removal
of many duplicates, formatting/whitespace fixes, spelling fixes,
and a host of others. Note: No fortunes were intentionally removed
(other than duplicates) as part of this cleanup. In removing dupes
I tried to be generous in not removing similarly worded fortunes
that had even slightly different punch lines.

Duplicates were resolved as follows (in this order):
* + limerick -> limerick
* + fortunes-o.real -> fortunes-o.real
* + fortunes2-o -> fortunes2-o
* + zippy -> zippy
murphy + fortunes -> fortunes

In correcting spelling I've tried to leave colloquial variations
(especially British'isms) intact, as well as to not "correct"
errors that are part of the joke.

In fortunes and fortunes2-o I combined a couple of fortunes that
were adjacent to each other that seemed like they should have
originally been combined, and split a couple that seemed like they
should have originally been split.

Miscellaneous:
1. Fixed underlining
2. Capitalized proper names
3. Removed quotation marks from "freestanding" quotes for consistency
4. Added quotation marks to QOTD fortunes that needed them
5. Corrected or added many attributions
6. Removed apostrophes from trailing 's' that are plural, not possessive
7. Updated the path to fortune stuff included in some of the jokes
8. Updated several fortunes to their original version, and added attribution
9. Split up compound words that ispell tripped over


# 164849 03-Dec-2006 maxim

o /stand/sysinstall -> /usr/sbin/sysinstall.

PR: conf/106254
Submitted by: Simon Olofsson
MFC after: 1 week


# 163144 09-Oct-2006 chinsan

Add a tip on "how to strip UTF-8 BOM"

Approved by: delphij (mentor)


# 148797 06-Aug-2005 krion

Fix locations of some links.
Word smithing.

PR: conf/81923
Submitted by: Gavin Atkinson <gavin dot atkinson at ury.york.ac.uk>


# 143833 19-Mar-2005 murray

Typo.

PR: conf/77178
Submitted by: Andras Jako <jako.andras@eik.bme.hu>
MFC after: 1 week


# 142806 28-Feb-2005 yar

Give a better advice on how to convert DOS text to UNIX text.
The former tip used `col -bx', which would not only discard
CR's, but also expand TAB's and remove BS'en. This effect is
not always wanted.

MFC after: 1 week


# 140419 18-Jan-2005 phk

Remove committer-specific entry.


# 140374 17-Jan-2005 phk

Minor bit of advice.


# 139631 03-Jan-2005 josef

There is a better way to find out whether a port is installed or not.


# 134243 24-Aug-2004 blackend

Fix make search entries.

PR: docs/70899
Submitted by: Marc Silver <marcs@draenor.org>


# 125955 18-Feb-2004 cperciva

Fix misspellings in the freebsd-tips fortunes. The same PR has
a patch to mention portupgrade in freebsd-tips as well; I'm not
sure if that belongs here, so I'll leave it for someone else.

PR: misc/37073
Submitted by: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>
Approved by: rwatson (mentor)


# 124230 07-Jan-2004 blackend

Add a tip on how to print a manual page.

PR: docs/61033
Submitted by: mi@


# 118366 02-Aug-2003 schweikh

Fix a tip about how to create an empty file[1].
Remove tip about retired kget(8).
Fix a typo.

PR: conf/54334
Submitted by: Mark Huizer <xaa+sendpr@timewasters.nl>
MFC after: 3 days


# 110924 15-Feb-2003 robert

Remove the suggestion to try `hangman', because it does not exist
in the base system anymore.


# 106986 16-Nov-2002 joerg

set watch in tcsh requires an equal sign after the variable name.

MFC after: 1 day


# 105517 20-Oct-2002 tom

Minor grammatical correction


# 105482 19-Oct-2002 blackend

Fix the path to the make.conf example file.

PR: docs/44278
Submitted by: Chris Pepper <pepper@rockefeller.edu>


# 102943 04-Sep-2002 jmallett

Add a tip about using sed(1)'s FreeBSD-specific -i option.

MFC after: 42 days


# 99995 14-Jul-2002 dwmalone

Fix a typo.

PR: 40539
Submitted by: Munish Chopra <mchopra@engmail.uwaterloo.ca>


# 99534 07-Jul-2002 mp

Paraphrase a quote to remove year specific references.

PR: 40291
Submitted by: Pierre-Paul Lavoie <ppl@nbnet.nb.ca>


# 95677 28-Apr-2002 dougb

* Add $FreeBSD$ to limerick and zippy
* Delete trailing white space in all its forms. In addition to being
bad style in general, it also causes formatting, and other problems
for various third party items (like xscreensaver) which use fortunes
for their own purposes.


# 93518 01-Apr-2002 joe

Add a few more tips, and tweak a couple.

PR: misc/34039


# 93516 01-Apr-2002 joe

Augment the BLOCKSIZE tip. (Based on the PR with slight changes by myself).

PR: misc/34039


# 90516 11-Feb-2002 keramida

Add a tip about pkg_info and checking for multiple installed versions
of a package/port.


# 88035 17-Dec-2001 mikeh

Modify tip that no longer applies for ftp(1).


# 86620 19-Nov-2001 keramida

Other committers do not mention their personal names and/or email
addresses when adding stuff, so it seems fair to stop ``getting all
the fame'' by having my name displayed on login sessions.

Approved by: nik


# 84001 27-Sep-2001 murray

Tip Correction : s/seconds/minutes/

PR: docs/30844
Submitted by: Andrew <andrew@ugh.net.au>


# 82604 30-Aug-2001 alex

Move /etc/defaults/make.conf to /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf as
discussed on the arch@ mailinglist (after repo-copy).

sys.mk will .error if it finds /etc/defaults/make.conf but include
it anyways (this is the same behaviour as with the make.conf.local
removal).

/usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf has BDEFLAGS commented out now,
since it's only an example file.

Adjust all textes that talk about make.conf or defaults/make.conf to
match the new situation.


# 81558 12-Aug-2001 mharo

Remove whitespace after %. The whitespace was causing strfile to not see
the % string section break and thus fortune was producing a rather large
multi-fortune fortune message.


# 79027 30-Jun-2001 mpp

Fix a couple of typos.


# 78796 26-Jun-2001 dd

Remove two duplicate tips and correct formatting of an attribution.


# 78777 25-Jun-2001 brian

What to do when :w tells you you haven't got permission.


# 78774 25-Jun-2001 brian

Mention that sh supports command line editing


# 78773 25-Jun-2001 brian

Mention that vi supports split-screen mode.


# 78772 25-Jun-2001 brian

Suggest using .login/.profile to set environment variables, not
.cshrc/.bashrc/.zshrc/.shrc


# 78512 20-Jun-2001 mph

"Unmount" is spelled "umount", not "unmount".


# 78471 19-Jun-2001 nik

Fix a couple of tips, and add a new one.

Submitted by: Alexey V. Neyman <avn@any.ru>


# 78458 19-Jun-2001 dd

Correct some typos.

PR: 28251
Submitted by: Alex Kapranoff <alex@kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su>


# 78355 16-Jun-2001 nik

More tips. I'd never heard of look(1) before.

Submitted by: Dru <genisis@istar.ca>


# 78352 16-Jun-2001 nik

More tips, this time from the Russian Fidonet FreeBSD Echo.

And I never knew about ports(7) before.

Submitted by: Alexey V. Neyman <avn@any.ru>


# 78283 15-Jun-2001 eivind

De-credit myself in order to be consistent.
Also add a few more tips while I am here.


# 78271 15-Jun-2001 nik

More tips.

Submitted by: David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com>


# 78266 15-Jun-2001 nik

Add a new category of fortunes, 'freebsd-tips'. Useful hints, advice, and
pointers to areas of the system that might not be apparent on first
inspection.