Re: questions about FreeBSD
On Monday 31 August 2009 17:00:07 Jerry McAllister wrote: Same response. Do your homework. The nature of the OP's questions strongly suggested that we are doing his homework. I'm surprised so many people spoonfed the answers rather than pointing to resources like the handbook, as the first responder did. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: questions about FreeBSD
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 08:41:00AM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Monday 31 August 2009 17:00:07 Jerry McAllister wrote: Same response. Do your homework. The nature of the OP's questions strongly suggested that we are doing his homework. I'm surprised so many people spoonfed the answers rather than pointing to resources like the handbook, as the first responder did. I and several others did both. Since this list is best when it is friendly, it seemed well to add some encouragement in the form of pointers. Good teachers give both clues as well as piont to sources. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: questions about FreeBSD
2009/8/31 James Phillips anti_spam...@yahoo.ca: ... I have some questions about FreeBSD. The questions I had in mind are: Such general questions imply homework assignment. Indeed, I found General features (at least three)? Firewall, GUI, Networking and so on. quite amusing. I am surprised he didn't include the marking scheme for us and his teacher's email address so that we could save him the bother of handing it in. Somebody already replied with a link to the Handbook: It mainly covers installing and configuring FreeBSD. If that were the only response, he probably would have just printed the handbook out and handed it in - given the amount of effort he took to hide the fact that it was a home work question. That said, he *might* actually learn something about FreeBSD, which is probably more than can be said for the rest of his class. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: questions about FreeBSD
2009/8/31 Julian R A Manning julian.r.a.mann...@gmail.com Dear Sir/Madam I have some questions about FreeBSD. The questions I had in mind are: . What type of OS is it? Is it single/multi user, multitasking, what family does it belong to? . General features (at least three)? Firewall, GUI, Networking and so on. . Minimum Hardware Requirements? Processors, RAM, Hard drive space, type of monitors and so on. . File system supported? . Applications (at least three)? eg. wordprocessing and so on. It would be very helpful if you could just pass on this email to someone who has experience with FreeBSD. Yours sincerely, Julian Manning ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ -- With best regards, Vladislav Prokofyev ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: questions about FreeBSD
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 09:12:39PM +1200, Julian R A Manning wrote: Dear Sir/Madam I have some questions about FreeBSD. The questions I had in mind are: . What type of OS is it? Is it single/multi user, multitasking, what family does it belong to? It is a BSD UNIX operating system, originally based on the original full featured Unix developed at Berkeley and distributed through Berkeley Software Distributions (thus the BSD) of UC Berkeley. That was based on the original Bell Labs (ATT) UNIX, but due to significant development, improvements and some lawsuits, was rewritten so there was no Bell Labs code left in it. Later ATS started another UNIX family too called SVR4 (meaning System five Release four) and Linux is somewhat based on that strain of the beast. All UNIXen are naturally multi user, multitasking and nowdays multithreading. . General features (at least three)? Firewall, GUI, Networking and so on. Yup. All completely the latest and greatest. BSD UNIX in general and by nature is quite secure, although in any human created system, mistakes can be discovered. In general, the process of creating and vetting FreeBSD and the other BSDs militates against mistakes and poor code, but it can happen. . Minimum Hardware Requirements? Processors, RAM, Hard drive space, type of monitors and so on. You really need to read up on the FreeBSD web site for this information. It is all there. http://www.freebsd.org/ Each release has a list of what it will support in hardware. Generally, although it began life on the i386 family of processors (which continued through 486, 586, 686, pentium, etc) nowdays it is available for most commodity CPUs such as AMD, Sparc, etc. I have run it on as little as 128MB memory and 4 GB disk, but some have gone lower. The top end will handle most anything that is currently available in the general marketplace. . File system supported? Same response. Do your homework. Generally UFS, UFS2, ZFS. Will mount most Microsloth filesystems but those are non-native and have some limitations. . Applications (at least three)? eg. wordprocessing and so on. Everything you can imagine. There are thousands of things in the ports that you can install. Again, read the documentation to understand what this means. It would be very helpful if you could just pass on this email to someone who has experience with FreeBSD. Yours sincerely, Julian Manning Sounds like you are working on a class homework project or were sent to survey things by a non-informed boss. The best thing you can do is get on the FreeBSD web site and start reading - following the many links to the documentation. Some of those links will point you to other sites too, such as Onlamp.com and many other places. Try doing some Google searching for FreeBSD too. Do your homework. Have fun, jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: questions about FreeBSD
On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:12:39 +1200, Julian R A Manning julian.r.a.mann...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Sir/Madam You are talking to a mailing list. Dear list would be a good line to start. :-) I have some questions about FreeBSD. The questions I had in mind are: . What type of OS is it? Is it single/multi user, multitasking, what family does it belong to? It is a free UNIX OS, which is multi-user and multi-tasking capable. . General features (at least three)? Firewall, GUI, Networking and so on. Yes, all three are present. You have the choice among many solutions and not tied to a specific program. Networking is fully functional and includes IPv6 support for many years now, as well as drivers for many networking devices. . Minimum Hardware Requirements? Processors, RAM, Hard drive space, type of monitors and so on. As far as I remember, for x86 it is 80386 and 16 MB RAM. Hard disks with 5 GB can hold a fully-functional system with applications. The more functionality you need, the more programs you will need, and hard disk requirements will increase. . File system supported? Natively, UFS (FFS) is used. There are various file systems that are supported by the OS, such as MS-DOS, NTFS, EXT2 and so on. NFS is available, as well as SAMBA, furthermore CD (ISO-9660) and memory file system MFS, and UDF. Additional file system support can be installed via the fuse package. . Applications (at least three)? eg. wordprocessing and so on. There are many thousands of applications availabe natively for FreeBSD. Common word processors are OpenOffice, AbiWord, and the typesetting system LaTeX. FreeBSD offers programs for everything, from diagnostics, servers for various stuff, multimedia, even games. It would be very helpful if you could just pass on this email to someone who has experience with FreeBSD. I think all members of this mailing list have experiences with FreeBSD, allthough not all of them are FreeBSD developers. To find out more about FreeBSD, check its excellent web site: http://www.freebsd.org/ http://www.freebsd.org/about.html If you have further or specific questions, ask the friendly list. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: questions about FreeBSD
Message: 20 Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:12:39 +1200 From: Julian R A Manning julian.r.a.mann...@gmail.com Subject: questions about FreeBSD To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: !!aaayaoslqhhrs5xjqsorentxda7cgaaaektsyylaghfbhcoibfzk6jgba...@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Dear Sir/Madam I have some questions about FreeBSD. The questions I had in mind are: Such general questions imply homework assignment. Somebody already replied with a link to the Handbook: It mainly covers installing and configuring FreeBSD. . What type of OS is it? Is it single/multi user, multitasking, what family does it belong to? Yes, it supports all three. Single-user mode is usually reserved for emergency system maintenance. . General features (at least three)? Firewall, GUI, Networking and so on. Yes, But the GUI is part of the Ports collection (X Window system (xorg)) http://www.freebsd.org/features.html . Minimum Hardware Requirements? Processors, RAM, Hard drive space, type of monitors and so on. Almost anything made in the past 10 years will do. . File system supported? . Applications (at least three)? eg. wordprocessing and so on. See the ports collection (Chapter 4 of Handbook). It would be very helpful if you could just pass on this email to someone who has experience with FreeBSD. Yours sincerely, Julian Manning Regards, James Phillips __ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: questions about FreeBSD
At Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:12:39 +1200, Julian R A Manning wrote: [...] . General features (at least three)? Firewall, GUI, Networking and so on. Hmm.. special is nothing. Personally i do web-browsing with Firefox, and i read/write emails with Emacs, and i do listening to music with beep-media-player. That's all to me. Sincerely, -- Byung-Hee HWANG ∑ WWW: http://izb.knu.ac.kr/~bh/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Questions about FreeBSD arp table
Sean Murphy wrote: Does rebooting FreeBSD clear the arp table? The arp table is continuously cleaned up, dynamic entries expire after about one minute. am I correct with arp -d * should clear all arp information? Yes Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: www.daemonsecurity.com/ca/8D03551FFCE04F06.crt Subject ID: 9E:AA:18:E6:94:7A:91:44:0A:E4:DD:87:73:7F:4E:82:E7:08:9C:72 Fingerprint: 5B:D5:1E:3E:47:E7:EC:1C:4C:C8:3A:19:CC:AE:14:F5:DF:18:0F:B9 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Questions about FreeBSD arp table
On 2006-02-14 15:50, Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a few questions with arp on FreeBSD Does the FreeBSD maintain its arp information in a File? No. It's not really necessary, the way arp works now. Does rebooting FreeBSD clear the arp table? Yes. It would be silly to keep an arp table from a previous run of the system and then mess things up when, for instance, a laptop moves from one network to another, right? :) am I correct with arp -d * should clear all arp information? No. But you can use ``arp -d -a'' for this. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Questions about FreeBSD support for Multiple Monitors IPv6 Protocol
Matthew Jordan wrote: Does FreeBSD, Xorg or the Window Managers have support for more than one Monitor, and if so how would I enable that feature? X.org supports this feature. I can offer a sample configuration that works for me: http://www.alpha-tierchen.de/dateien/etc/xorg.conf-dual.txt Can I use IPv6 Protocol with FreeBSD on my internal network if I wanted to? Yes, read the IPv6 section of the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-ipv6.html if you need further information about this topic. Björn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Questions about FreeBSD support for Multiple Monitors IPv6 Protocol
# Matthew Jordan: Does FreeBSD, Xorg or the Window Managers have support for more than one Monitor, and if so how would I enable that feature? There are multiple ways to do this, i.e. xinerama. Try googling for multiple monitors xorg or something like that. If you use the nVidia-driver from ports, it's even easier, I just modified my xorg.conf: Section Device Identifier NV AGP Driver nvidia BusID PCI:1:0:0 Option TwinView on Option MetaModes 1280x1024,1280x1024; 1024x768,NULL Option SecondMonitorHorizSync 28-64 Option SecondMonitorVertRefresh 60 Option TwinViewOrientation LeftOf EndSection Can I use IPv6 Protocol with FreeBSD on my internal network if I wanted to? I haven't tried, but in all probability: yes. HTH, Mario -- Für Gegner der Reform wird ein Wagen, der an die Wand gefahren wurde, nicht dadurch wieder flott, dass man zwei seiner Räder für intakt erklärt. -- Hermann Unterstöger, SZ, über die Rechtschraipreform ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Questions about FreeBSD Versions
Quoting Leonard, Harry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello FreeBSD, My name is Harry Leonard and I'm very interested in using FreeBSD. I work in a small shop, outside of Flagstaff, Arizona for the State of Arizona, in a half Microsoft, half open source environment. I'm the resident programmer and I've used Perl/PHP/MySQL here for almost four years. My boss has set up servers running OpenBSD and I get to use them creating our website and running intranet applications. My problem now is that my boss is in Iraq and we're in need of a new server or two. I've researched the subject and have found myself getting a little squeamish with the thought of installing/tweaking an OpenBSD box. FreeBSD seemed like the next viable option and I did get a thumbs up from my boss. I also saw a segment on TechTv's Screen Savers which gave me the confidence that I could pull this off. I started looking at versions and decided to purchase the latest and greatest. I bought the four disk set of FreeBSD 5.0 w/ the handbook and thought I was on a roll. Surely, I installed it several times before I got it right and then I began to run into problems and loose some confidence. My problems started with the installation of Apache. I'm going back after it today though and I hope that I'll have some success. Yes, I am a newbie but a driven one. I very much want to have two FreeBSD boxes in-house and I am a hard one to quit. I did quit on FreeBSD 5.0 though and I also think this is where my troubles really began. I figured that I would do some more reading and found that 5.0 might not be the best version for newbie's (in cases of trouble). So, I figured that I would go to FreeBSD 5.1. A newer version shouldn't hurt huh? Well, I think something went awry in the download and I never got this version to work correctly for me either. Well, now I'm figuring that I'll just move backwards to FreeBSD 4.8 Stable and this will just alleviate all my problems. This has not worked yet for me either and my confidence is further eroding. But, my tenacity is still in there and I'd rather go down in flames than let my office mate turn this office into a full Microsoft shop and me running Apache/PHP/MySQL on an IIS box. My boss expressed his dismay of this happening and I told him I would not let him down. Newbie I may be but I'm not a quitter. This email is about: Which version of FreeBSD should I be using for production? I need to set up an in-house web server for our website and another box for my few intranet applications. In the near future I might have the opportunity to create a firewall box and I really need to get on top of things. Today, I'll go back to FreeBSD 5.0 (which I've had the most success with) and read the errata over again and make sure there's nothing that I'm missing. I'd appreciate it if you could give me a stamp of approval on which version I can/should use for my small production needs. Sorry, if I've gotten a little windy with my explanation but I wanted to give you some background. I also Thank You for reading this email and for any help that you can provide me in this matter. Please let me know what you think? Most likely you should use FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE for any kind of production server. I run FreeBSD 5.x-CURRENT on all of my machines without a problem (with apache, mysql, php, etc...) but I still don't recommend that people do that. What kind of problems are you having? I doubt that your problems are FreeBSD specific... they are probably more specific to the server apps you are running (apache, etc...). Ken ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Questions about FreeBSD Versions
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 10:49:46AM -0700, Leonard, Harry wrote: This email is about: Which version of FreeBSD should I be using for production? I need to set up an in-house web server for our website and another box for my few intranet applications. In the near future I might have the opportunity to create a firewall box and I really need to get on top of things. Today, I'll go back to FreeBSD 5.0 (which I've had the most success with) and read the errata over again and make sure there's nothing that I'm missing. I'd appreciate it if you could give me a stamp of approval on which version I can/should use for my small production needs. Sorry, if I've gotten a little windy with my explanation but I wanted to give you some background. I also Thank You for reading this email and for any help that you can provide me in this matter. Please let me know what you think? Definitely your first choice should be 4.8-RELEASE on a production system. The only exceptions are when you need to support hardware only covered by 5.x or you need some software capabilities, like nss_ldap/pam_ldap only available on 5.x. Production in general means that it's the server that carries your publically visible web presence and not having it running 24x7 is going to cost you money or prestige. having said that, a version from the RELENG_4 branch (ie. at the moment FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE) will be right up in the same ballpark as regards stability and reliability as one of the -RELEASE versions -- it's just that RELENG_4, being a development branch, doesn't absolutely guarrantee that, and it's a moving target: changes and updates are made to RELENG_4 every day, and if you're trying to run a site really professionally, you're going to give yourself a much higher burden of testing by tracking RELENG_4. Now, generally the only other option would be 5-CURRENT (which is the HEAD branch in cvs). That's definitely developers only territory, not guarranteed to work correctly or even boot up at any particular point in time. Certainly not suitable for running a webserver on. However, due to the particular circumstances at the moment, the gap in functionality between 4.x and 5.x is particularly big, and the 4.x branch has had a much longer life than initially expected (compare to the 3.x branch which only reached 3.5-RELEASE), so it was felt that there should be some early releases from the 5.x branch to promote testing on a wider range of equipment. 5.1 is still a New Technology release, but many people are running it quite happily on their desktops -- particularly portables for which it has much improved support. Even so, it's not advised to run it on a server system, especially if you are adverse to being paged at 3.00am to come and sort out what broke. See http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/early-adopter.html for an article discussing who might consider running what version. As for your problems with the installer, this mailing list can certainly help you out. Try searching the list archives for someone else who has had similar problems -- either at lists.freebsd.org for stuff in about the last three or four months or at http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists or there's a new site with a particularly good (IMHO) search interface at http://freebsd.rambler.ru/ Then there's Google (of course), and the http://www.freebsdforums.org/ message board system. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Questions about FreeBSD Versions
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 12:49 pm, Leonard, Harry wrote: Hello FreeBSD, HI Harry, My name is Harry Leonard and I'm very interested in using FreeBSD. I work in a small shop, outside of Flagstaff, Arizona for the State of Arizona, in a half Microsoft, half open source environment. I'm the resident programmer and I've used Perl/PHP/MySQL here for almost four years. My boss has set up servers running OpenBSD and I get to use them creating our website and running intranet applications. My problem now is that my boss is in Iraq and we're in need of a new server or two. I've researched the subject and have found myself getting a little squeamish with the thought of installing/tweaking an OpenBSD box. FreeBSD seemed like the next viable option and I did get a thumbs up from my boss. I also saw a segment on TechTv's Screen Savers which gave me the confidence that I could pull this off. I started looking at versions and decided to purchase the latest and greatest. I'm sure the folks at OpenBSD would rather help you than let you walk away with the perception that it's too hard. But as long as you're here.. I bought the four disk set of FreeBSD 5.0 w/ the handbook and thought I was on a roll. Surely, I installed it several times before I got it right and then I began to run into problems and loose some confidence. My problems started with the installation of Apache. I'm going back after it today though and I hope that I'll have some success. Yes, I am a newbie but a driven one. I very much want to have two FreeBSD boxes in-house and I am a hard one to quit. I did quit on FreeBSD 5.0 though and I also think this is where my troubles really began. I figured that I would do some more reading and found that 5.0 might not be the best version for newbie's (in cases of trouble). So, I figured that I would go to FreeBSD 5.1. A newer version shouldn't hurt huh? Well, I think something went awry in the download and I never got this version to work correctly for me either. Well, now I'm figuring that I'll just move backwards to FreeBSD 4.8 Stable and this will just alleviate all my problems. This has not worked yet for me either and my confidence is further eroding. But, my tenacity is still in there and I'd rather go down in flames than let my office mate turn this office into a full Microsoft shop and me running Apache/PHP/MySQL on an IIS box. My boss expressed his dismay of this happening and I told him I would not let him down. Newbie I may be but I'm not a quitter. This email is about: Which version of FreeBSD should I be using for production? I need to set up an in-house web server for our website and another box for my few intranet applications. In the near future I might have the opportunity to create a firewall box and I really need to get on top of things. Today, I'll go back to FreeBSD 5.0 (which I've had the most success with) and read the errata over again and make sure there's nothing that I'm missing. I'd appreciate it if you could give me a stamp of approval on which version I can/should use for my small production needs. Sorry, if I've gotten a little windy with my explanation but I wanted to give you some background. I also Thank You for reading this email and for any help that you can provide me in this matter. Please let me know what you think? Sincerely, Harry Leonard Information Technology Specialist III Camp Navajo phone: @ (928) 773-3363 e-mail: @ [EMAIL PROTECTED] You're email doesn't really describe the kinds of problems you're experiencing. Please be more descriptive. My opinion: Newbies looking for a production box should install FreeBSD 4.8 and upgrade to 4-STABLE via cvsup before installing a bunch of apps. General steps follow: 0. Searchable documentation can be found at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html Use it to learn more about steps = 2: 1. Find out what version of Apache you're running on OpenBSD (1.* or 2.*). You'll need to know this if you want to install the same version on FreeBSD. 2. Install FreeBSD 4.8. Don't install many apps yet. 3. Read documentation on updating/upgrading the system via cvsup, make world and recompiling the kernel. 4. Install the apps you need to make adminstering the system more bearable (midnight commander, your favorite editor, etc). Try to install other apps after updating the system. 5. Install cvsupit. Use cvsup to update the system to STABLE. 6. Update the system using make world and mergemaster. 7. Recompile the kernel. If you don't have to make any configuration changes, this should be a real breeze. 8. Install apache from ports. There are several versions. Choose the one that meets your needs. (The same version you're using on OpenBSD would probably be a good choice.) 9. Install MySQL from the ports. 10. Install PHP from the ports. There are ports for PHP under /usr/ports/lang and for
Re: Questions about FreeBSD Versions
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 10:49:46AM -0700, Leonard, Harry wrote: Hello FreeBSD, My name is Harry Leonard and I'm very interested in using FreeBSD. I work in a small shop, outside of Flagstaff, Arizona for the State of Arizona, in a half Microsoft, half open source environment. I'm the resident programmer and I've used Perl/PHP/MySQL here for almost four years. My boss has set up servers running OpenBSD and I get to use them creating our website and running intranet applications. My problem now is that my boss is in Iraq and we're in need of a new server or two. I've researched the subject and have found myself getting a little squeamish with the thought of installing/tweaking an OpenBSD box. FreeBSD seemed like the next viable option and I did get a thumbs up from my boss. I also saw a segment on TechTv's Screen Savers which gave me the confidence that I could pull this off. I started looking at versions and decided to purchase the latest and greatest. I bought the four disk set of FreeBSD 5.0 w/ the handbook and thought I was on a roll. Surely, I installed it several times before I got it right and then I began to run into problems and loose some confidence. My problems started with the installation of Apache. I'm going back after it today though and I hope that I'll have some success. Yes, I am a newbie but a driven one. I very much want to have two FreeBSD boxes in-house and I am a hard one to quit. I did quit on FreeBSD 5.0 though and I also think this is where my troubles really began. I figured that I would do some more reading and found that 5.0 might not be the best version for newbie's (in cases of trouble). So, I figured that I would go to FreeBSD 5.1. A newer version shouldn't hurt huh? Well, I think something went awry in the download and I never got this version to work correctly for me either. Well, now I'm figuring that I'll just move backwards to FreeBSD 4.8 Stable and this will just alleviate all my problems. This has not worked yet for me either and my confidence is further eroding. But, my tenacity is still in there and I'd rather go down in flames than let my office mate turn this office into a full Microsoft shop and me running Apache/PHP/MySQL on an IIS box. My boss expressed his dismay of this happening and I told him I would not let him down. Newbie I may be but I'm not a quitter. This email is about: Which version of FreeBSD should I be using for production? I need to set up an in-house web server for our website and another box for my few intranet applications. In the near future I might have the opportunity to create a firewall box and I really need to get on top of things. Today, I'll go back to FreeBSD 5.0 (which I've had the most success with) and read the errata over again and make sure there's nothing that I'm missing. I'd appreciate it if you could give me a stamp of approval on which version I can/should use for my small production needs. Sorry, if I've gotten a little windy with my explanation but I wanted to give you some background. I also Thank You for reading this email and for any help that you can provide me in this matter. Please let me know what you think? Sincerely, Harry Leonard Information Technology Specialist III Camp Navajo phone: @ (928) 773-3363 e-mail: @ [EMAIL PROTECTED] As another poster pointed out, you might consider going with a 4.8-RELEASE, or maybe 4.8-STABLE to be on the safe side. Check out this link: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/early-adopter.html Other than that, again, what specific problems are you having? Nathan -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys D8527E49 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
