Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 13:36:03 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 194305] databases/mariadb55-server (probably mysql too) ignores datadir directive in my.cnf Message-ID: <bug-194305-13-ku0WPvMuQI@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-194305-13@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-194305-13@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D194305 --- Comment #24 from MMacD <scratch65535@att.net> --- in rx to Markus's 22: I'm separating this part out because, as you say, it= 's OT. "As an admin you have to learn each system new from the ground up and documentation can assist you in most cases, but you have to adjust the docs according to your own systems "defaults" and/or "standards" and/or your personal preferences. That's why we talk about options and not hardcoded paths." Professional sysadmins certainly have an important job-security motivation = for keeping systems unstandardised and the learning curve vertical. There's nothing wrong with that. But I started out in the industry when there were hardly any standards that applied to more than a single product line from a single company. My compu= ting experience doesn't quite extend back to the days when to boot a system some= one had to flip front panel switches to load the primary boot code byte by byte, but I did that once just for fun (on a PDP 4? don't remember) and was quite glad, after, that I'd never had to do it for real. Standards are good. Microsoft and Apple are the big winners not because th= eir systems have any special virtues, but because they're standardised. If you know how to make one Windoze or Mac box go, you can sit down at any other Windoze or Mac box and make it go too. They might be slow and in the case = of Windoze fragile, but they don't require people to learn each box "from the ground up". That's a good thing, and it's what FreeBSD should aspire to, t= oo. I chose to build up my server-of-all-work from a FreeBSD 10.2 foundation ra= ther than use a drop-in solution like FreeNAS because I really didn't (and don't) like not being able to understand the pfSense software in my firewall box. = It works very well, but I'd have to reverse-engineer it to understand anything about it because the pfSense guys made so many basic changes. Maybe it runs much faster than if they'd left it alone, I don't know. But I decided that= I was not going to be that ignorant about my server box.=20=20 The Unices are powerful, but they are a mess. A *needless* mess. Nobody w= ould be buying Macs today if Apple had simply decided to run FreeBSD when they switched from Motorola to Intel. It's something to remember. --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=
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