Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 12:56:00 -0800 (PST) From: Adam Nealis <adamnealis@yahoo.co.uk> To: JK Scheinberg <jzk@mac.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Minimal 6.0 installed - need your recommendation to get services installed and up Message-ID: <20060105205605.12605.qmail@web86903.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <71F1035E-43D5-437C-BB18-51B36FAB64D7@mac.com>
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--- JK Scheinberg <jzk@mac.com> wrote: > I want to setup, in the easiest and quickest possible way, a server > for apache-ssl, php, mysql, and postfix/courier-imap. > > I've installed FreeBSD 6.0. A minimal install. I don't care about > anything else but those applications and services ( well, ssh so I > can attach to the machine, but I have that working already ) > > I don't feel the need to work from sources, binaries would probably > be fine. I connect via ssh and don't want X. I'd rather not even > install the development tools ( they are not on there yet) > > I'd like to be able to keep the system up to date as patches etc come > out > > There are tons of references on how to do this on the net but I've > tried a bunch of them and either they are not complete or they > require hours of cvsup'ing and building from source etc. You'll need to spend some time here: <rtfm://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html> > I just want to get this up and working and not have to spend tons of > time doing that or maintaining it > > So, how do you recommend I do this? Well, you might need to RTFM just a little bit if you get stuck. And trust me, it's worth it. Since you seem to be in a hurry, I'll assume you installed 6.0-RELEASE (you can check this with uname -a). Also, I'd keep a written log or an a text file on a separate machine of what you do and what worked because you can easily bork a machine if you are in too much of a hurry. So it helps to know how to recover quickly. Anyway, As root, cd to /usr/ports/packages/All - if it doesn't exist, then do mkdir -p /usr/ports/packages/All cd /usr/ports/packages/All Since you don't use X, use lynx or your favourite ftp client to browse this little lot. You may, of course, use a more convenient mirror site. <ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.0-release/All/>; The above contains hundreds of binary packages at the time of 6.0-RELEASE going out. Now, if you were prepared to RTFM I'd recommend using pkg_add -r <package name> but that would require you first playing with /etc/make.conf, and so on as sometimes remote fetching needs tweaking. Instead, I suggest you look over the FTP site above and download to /usr/ports/packages/All the packages you require. Then use pkg_add to install them. I'm not familiar with the precise packages mix you require, so you might have dependency problems. In which case, try man pkg_add or <rtfm://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.html#APPLICATIONS> <rtfm://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/packages-using.html> or this list. __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL – Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com
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