Any advice for a Partition Plan for a multi-jailed Server?

Hi! I'm setting up a jailed server. I'm hoping to eventually use sysutils/ezjail to deaden the pain a bit! First step, have to get the disks partitioned! They're unpacked, at least ;-) I've read lots of comments like, You should never setup your FreeBSD systems the way Linux or other *nix's

Re: Any advice for a Partition Plan for a multi-jailed Server?

drive 2: / 2GB A bit big, but fine I though so, but with drives this big cheap ... :-) /boot 2GB Nope, FreeBSD doesn't need / want a /boot I didn't realize :-/ Just to be sure, you DO mean it doesn't want a separate slice/partition,

Re: Any advice for a Partition Plan for a multi-jailed Server?

Hi guys! Some great ideas advice. Thanks a lot :-) /boot *needs* to be on /. A loader looks for [bootdisk][bootslice] [a]/boot/loader. Ok, gotcha. Since you have 2 physical drives, you may want to do 8G on each drive. In the rare case it's needed, your system is in trouble and

the right next step?

Hi everybody! If we've i) raised a question about a port on this list ii) sent an email to the port maintainer iii) filed a pr iv) waited ~ a month, then followed-up the pr and there's still no communication / action, what's the right next step? Is there a different list to communicate

Re: the right next step?

Hi John! Does your PR include a fix? Well, I've sent my suggestion to the maintainer -- I don't know if it's the *right* fix for the general port. But, it works for me as a workaround. For what it's worth, in this particular case, I've simply asked that the www/apache22 port be made

Re: the right next step?

Hi Bill! Note also that a ports freeze is starting soon for 7.0 and 6.3 release. During the freeze, you'll have difficulty getting any ports changes through. That's what I figured -- and why I've been trying to communicate about this for ~ a month already. It's not really that *I* have an

Re: easiest way to install CPAN on FreeBSD

Hi everybody! I'm not a very heavy perl user, but I've never *needed* to install CPAN on FreeBSD. A little creative searching has revealed that most perl packages are part of the FreeBSD Ports collection. If you use more obscure CPAN packages, I can see there might be a need to install

Re: the right next step?

Hi Jerry! I am not sure I understand all of what is being said or implied here. Hm. Now *I'm* confused by your confusion ;-) Let me summarize -- The www/apache22 port ignores (or more correctly, is not yet aware of ...) a port-installed bdb46. unlike most other ports that are up-to-date, it

Re: [freebsd-questions] easiest way to install CPAN on FreeBSD

Hi Howie, What does CPANPLUS do that CPAN doesn't that makes this a better solution? Does it somehow integrate with the ports better? (rather than getting conflicts between p5-* and bsdpan-*) I use quite a lot of CPAN modules, so a way to be able to get 'obscure' modules, and still use

Re: the right next step?

Hi, Yes, I'm aware of pending freezes and such ... and the need for a PR. As for ignoring make and build settings, that should probably be put in a PR (bug report). If it is a serious bug, then it might get addressed before the release. Otherwise it won't get touched until after. I

Which knobs do I use to control BDB use in MySQL-server port?

Hi everybody, I'm building my 1st FreeBSD-based box. Yay, I guess ;-p I've already installed Berkeley DB v46 from the Ports system. Now, I'ts on to MySQL server. I can easily build manually from source, configuring whatever I need. But, I'm trying to get the Ports system's knobs figured out

Re: Which knobs do I use to control BDB use in MySQL-server port?

Hi Dan! (1) Turn OFF use of BDB completely. The build seems to default to the bundled BDB Mysql 5.0's configure script doesn't seem to have a --without-bdb flag, so it always gets built. (2) Use the Port install of BDB v46 I mentioned above. It does have a --with-berkeley-db=DIR

Re: Which knobs do I use to control BDB use in MySQL-server port?

Hi Dan! I just tried it and it looks like that does disable bdb. I never noticed that line in the Makefile before :) Well, you'd think it should. But even with, grep berkeley-db ./Makefile CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--enable-assembler --without-berkeley-db the build seems to /ignore/ the flag,

Re: Which knobs do I use to control BDB use in MySQL-server port?

Hi Dan, One last thing (It's way past my bedtime here ;-p) See that --with-berkeley-db in there? :-( A little digging in the mysql ditribution's source files dredged up the CONF_COMMAND variable. Do-ing, CONF_COMMAND=--without-berkeley-db; export $CONF_COMMAND perl -pi -e

Re: Which knobs do I use to control BDB use in MySQL-server port?

I'll check the build's output with ldd when the build finishes. Looks like the simple workaround works :-) ldd /usr/local/libexec/mysqld libz.so.3 = /lib/libz.so.3 (0x284a8000) libwrap.so.4 = /usr/lib/libwrap.so.4 (0x284b9000) libssl.so.5 =

Apache22 Port can't find Berkeley DB.

Hi! When I ran an upgrade to the Ports tree using the portsnap tool portsnap fetch update I saw an available update available to /usr/ports/www/apache22, but it was immediately followed with an error, IGNORED Unknown Berkeley DB version in the console output. Other ports eventually get

Re: Apache22 Port can't find Berkeley DB.

Hi Gerard! I have been having the same problem with the latest version of Berkeley. I was going to contact the maintainer '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; however, I have not gotten around to it yet. Perhaps you might want to inquire of him how to get this problem rectified. Sure! Best, I guess, to just

Re: Apache22 Port can't find Berkeley DB.

Hi! Just FYI, I didn't get any response to the message I sent to the port-maintainer. I do know they've been working on / releasing stuff on this port in the meantime. Since I don't see any other way to communicate to a maintainer other than by list/email, I guess the right, next step is filing