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n0cmonkey

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Starting a new thread so we do not hijack another one.

Basically the problem is upgrading from Apache 1.3.19 to 1.3.20 and installing ProFTP.

 
I will be running FreeBSD again as soon as I get my dual p3 so Im much more interrested in this than I normally would be. Although helping someone out is always a good thing 😉

Anyhow, apache 1.3.20 did not appear to add anything to the UNIX/FreeBSD side. Most of the fixes were for the win32 platform, so upgrading should not be a big deal there.

And I am looking up proftp now...
 
i tried to update my ports through anonymous cvs. followed the instructions, and I couldn't log on.
Supposedly, this is the easiest way of updating, and yet it wouldn't let me log on.
It sorts of hangs, and I would have to break the connection and log off the server.

Like I said, I then tried replacing the default stuff with the tar file I downloaded from
the link I gave you earlier. That didn't work either.

I also tried to manually install the file downloaded from apache's server. I remember
you saying it wasn't specifically made for BSD so it might not work.

Also, this whole pkg_add stuff is confusing. Do I run that as 'pkg_add <package name>'
after I download the file? Or do a 'pkg_add -r <package name>' and let it go on the net
and download everything it needs?
 
Ok, Im not sure why it did not let you log in to the cvs server, I will have to go over their instructions on how to do update via cvs. It is significantly different than OpenBSD which is a shame.

I do think running the latest version to just have the latest version is not the best idea, but to each his own.

When I compile a port (I like doing that instead of packages because I can easily add more optimization for my platform) I just go to /usr/ports/typeofport/nameofport and type: make &&make install
This will download the source, compile it, and put it in the proper places. pkg_add will download binaries which will not be as optimized for your platform.

As far as downloading 1 tarball... Well the ports/package systems are fairly complex. You probably had an older config file for a newer port.
 
monkey...let me ask you this. i was and am a ms windoze person. i took up BSD so that I could learn and make
myself marketable once I get out of college (2 more years). Now, I'm starting to like setting up servers and stuff,
and it's fun. Then on the other hand, all this console type stuff is confusing and frustrating.

Sometimes I ask myself what I would like to do later in life. Will I make myself marketable by learning linux/bsd?
If I add BSD or say Redhat to my resume, will that make me a good candidate. Sometimes I wonder if all this
is a waste of time. Then again, I'm always learning new things, and I can't seem to say goodbye to the *NIX
world!
 


<< monkey...let me ask you this. i was and am a ms windoze person. i took up BSD so that I could learn and make
myself marketable once I get out of college (2 more years). Now, I'm starting to like setting up servers and stuff,
and it's fun. Then on the other hand, all this console type stuff is confusing and frustrating.

Sometimes I ask myself what I would like to do later in life. Will I make myself marketable by learning linux/bsd?
If I add BSD or say Redhat to my resume, will that make me a good candidate. Sometimes I wonder if all this
is a waste of time. Then again, I'm always learning new things, and I can't seem to say goodbye to the *NIX
world! >>



I got the job I have now partially because of my OpenBSD experience, and even more because of UNIX experience. Yahoo.com uses FreeBSD machines, and so do MANY other sites. RedHat would be good to learn if you just want to make yourself more marketable (or if you like it). And on the console, you will have much more control and power than you would in a gui. There is just so many things you can do on the cli that you cannot do in the gui. The gui can help (I use it on my desktop), but the most power on a UNIX system is at the command line. Stick with it. If you start to understand it, and I mean really understand it, you will wonder how you ever dealt with anything else 😉
 


<< Initially I wanted to learn it (unix) so I could get a job easier, but it's just so damn fun I can't go back to MS now >>



Thats what OpenBSD did to me. FreeBSD helped, but the elegance of OpenBSD was EXACTLY what I was looking for 🙂
 
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