From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 2 9:40:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from electricrain.com (electricrain.com [64.71.143.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08DFB37B407 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 09:40:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 1031 invoked by uid 546); 2 Oct 2001 16:40:31 -0000 From: "Eric Davis" Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 09:40:31 -0700 To: Patrick O'Reilly Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: favorite ports? Message-ID: <20011002094031.A775@electricrain.com> Reply-To: Eric Davis References: <20011002103721.7ea1cb80.nmace85@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from patrick@mip.co.za on Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 05:16:32PM +0200 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 You can always do the following when trying to find all apps that might do what you need: % cd /usr/ports % make search key="???" - e On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 05:16:32PM +0200, Patrick O'Reilly wrote: > Nathan, > > > what i mean is when you guys do a fresh install of freebsd > > for a workstation/desktop type computer...what apps do you > > install? > > I understand! That's why I gave you my personal list of apps that I > install. They are: > > > Apache+SSL for web servers. > > mod-perl for web-servers. > > php4 if you prefer PHP to Perl. > > PostgreSQL if you need a relational DB. > > bash 'cos I like it. > > mreport usage reports for mail servers. > > majordomo if you need to manage mailing lists. > > You said "i don't have time to INSTALL every app in the ports tree.....". I > understand that too! But you must understand that none of us have time for > that either. And we have equally little time to answer such a vague > question. For example, if you are not interested in configuring Web Servers > then the first three or four of my personal favorites above might be of no > value to you at all. > > You will probably find a more useful response from the members of this list > if you pose a question something like this in future: > > ------------------ > Hi! I am looking for a good network traffic sniffer. I have tried tcpdump > and snoop, but I need something with a feature allowing me to [insert > relevant feature description here], which these do not have. Does anyone > know of such a beast? > > Thanks. > ------------------ > > Regards, > Patrick. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Eric Davis ead@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~ead To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message