From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 25 11: 7:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from amy.webgator.com (ny-lasalle2a-96.buf.adelphia.net [24.51.24.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8023437B406 for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 11:07:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhummel@simpull.com) Received: from simpull.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by amy.webgator.com (8.11.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f7PI79K09079; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 14:07:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dhummel@simpull.com) Message-ID: <3B87E94C.7DDCAA6F@simpull.com> Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 14:07:09 -0400 From: Dave Hummel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: mod_perl DBI-Oracle - information/volunteers Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, First of all, I would like to thank the FreeBSD developers for their efforts. As I become a more experienced UNIX administrator (Solaris, AIX, Linux, FreeBSD) my appreciation for FreeBSD only grows. It truly is a great platform. TO THE POINT: What I (and I am quite sure others) need is a tidy little package consisting of apache-mod_perl with DBD-Oracle. In the past I have used the native Oracle 7 libraries, but I had to give that up because of lack of CLOB support. What I am about to attempt is to build a self-contained linux version of httpd-mod_perl with DBD-Oracle. The requirements as I see them are: 1 - This will run in a chrooted environment independent of the /compat/linux tree. a - chroot'd webservers are good (aren't they?) b - I do not want to add libraries/binaries or otherwise munge the linux_base. This package should always work with the current version of linux_base regardless of changes - a script will be used to copy required pieces of linux_base to the chrooted environment. 2 - This will be a tidy package. Not everyone has access to a linux box to do the compiles. The package will contain linux-httpd and required libs, linux-perl and required libs, and an easy way to install desired perl_modules. 3 - Obviously the package cannot contain the Oracle libraries because of licensing. We need to provide a way to extract the required libraries from a legally-aquired Oracle distribution. 4 - This should work equally well as tidy package for linux boxen. 5 - This would be documented and maintained. QUESTIONS: 1 - Has anybody already done this or part of this? 2 - Would anybody be willing to donate time to this by: a - Assisting with the technical side of things. b - Writing docs. c - Testing and providing feedback. d - Sharing experiences of attempts to do something similar. e - Sharing thoughts/comments to the overall game plan. Thanks, Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message