Re: New Servers - Mail, Perl - MySQL - PHP and things.
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 10:24:53AM -0400, Grant Peel wrote: 1. Should I upgrade the perl version. FBSD comes with 5.005_03. I think the latest Perl distro was 5.8. I would say, only if your applications require it. If yes, do I install directly from ports? Yes. If yes, how do I ensure the old version is being ignored. I gues what I am really asking, is what is the correct upgrade procedure? After installing the perl port, you will get told about use.perl port. Basically you just type that as root and it will add some things to your /etc/make.conf that makes the port's perl be used in future. You can revert with use.perl system. I want to be able to keep THIS (FBSD) installation 'upgradeable'. I have done some things to my other systems (FBSD 4.9 and 4.4) that I have been told would break if I upgraded the OS. Well, using ports is a good start. 2. What are the key items to adhear to when installing FBSD and other software so that the OS remains upgradeable? It depends exactly what you mean by upgradeable. If you install all your extra software from ports where possible then this means that the ports collection will help you keep track of dependencies and newer versions, and interaction with the base system. 5. What are the latest releases of Apache, Perl PHP Mysql that seem to play nice for everyone. I still find that I need to use the apache13 port and the mysql-server40 port to maintain compatability with everything else I need to use. -- http://freebsdwiki.org/ - Encrypted mail welcome - keyid 0xBF15490B [Open Source is] like trying to sell human rights to China because it might lead to more effective business models. -- David Kastrup, news:gnu.misc.discuss pgpygum7dTsHb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: New Servers - Mail, Perl - MySQL - PHP and things.
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Grant Peel wrote: 1. Should I upgrade the perl version. FBSD comes with 5.005_03. I think the latest Perl distro was 5.8. If yes, do I install directly from ports? If yes, how do I ensure the old version is being ignored. I gues what I am really asking, is what is the correct upgrade procedure? Yes to 5.8, yes to from ports, and when you are finished installing it from ports, just run 'use.perl port' and the old will be ignored ... 2. What are the key items to adhear to when installing FBSD and other software so that the OS remains upgradeable? to be honest, install as much as you can from ports and use portupgrade ... every once in a while I get burned with an upgrade, where the software made inconsistent changes with older versions (ie. Zope recently), but its so rare that I can live with the 'seat of my pants learning' for those couple of times ... For mail, I am currently using Exim (4.22) along with vm-pop3d, and Spamassassin. I implimented this combination so I could have truely virtual POP3 mbox's. I find little support for vm-pop3d, and I find Exim is alot of work to impliment (Routers, Transports etc). postfix + cyrus imapd22 will give you 'truely virtual POP3 *and* IMAP mboxes ... 4. Does anyne know of a better, still secure, simple method of managing virtual pop accounts that can still handle all the details? (Majordomo, Spamassassin etc). See above ... 5. What are the latest releases of Apache, Perl PHP Mysql that seem to play nice for everyone. The ones in ports ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
