From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 11 8:38:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from localhost.cts.COM (cts21612089241.cts.com [216.120.89.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9641937B423 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 08:38:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from heyjoe@localhost.cts.COM) Received: (from heyjoe@localhost) by localhost.cts.COM (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f3BEiN601472 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 07:44:23 -0700 Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 07:44:23 -0700 From: Joe Heuring To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: minimal web server install Message-ID: <20010411074423.A1110@Joe H> References: <20010407185341.B8519@Joe <20010407185341.B8519@Joe <20010407222428.E8519@Joe <20010407222428.E8519@Joe Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from tayers@bridge.com on Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 09:29:21PM -0500 X-Operating-System: Linux heyjoe 2.2.16-22 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > You are confusing issues here I think. I am. What I'm doing is ftp installing FreeBSD. The purpose I'm installing it for is a hobby web type server. If the actual software like apache and mysql could be considered 3rd level from the kernel then the packages I'm concerned with are the 2nd level ones. More like the tools ftp, editor, mail. Following the good rules I've heard I want to function but I don't want to carry around aextra armour that I don't use. Not to expose all my ignorance at once but so far I would just have bash mutt lynx vi qmail cool network diag tools, etc. I'm sure there must be some canned server package that can get pretty close to what I'm looking for. > The "lynx is similar to lynx" was a joke. Sorry. I'll answer again... I > know of 3 text-based browsers: lynx, w3m and links. Oh. It's true I've had all humor sucked out of me and dry as a fishbone now. > I don't understand when you say you aborted at the lynx prompt. I > don't recall ever getting a "lynx prompt" when installing FreeBSD over > FTP or otherwise. Do you mean you were building the lynx port at > /usr/ports/www/lynx and it didn't work? I've had no problems with > /usr/ports/www/lynx-ssl/. That's what I meant and didn't know it I guess. I don't understand the ports thing but will look into it, thanks. > > As far as linux vs FreeBSD, IMHO FreeBSD is a little more seat of the > pants than linux due to the large number of HOW-TO tutorials for > linux. FreeBSD is not harder than linux, just a little > different. (That's a hint that many of the linux how-to's at > www.linuxdoc.org are very helpful for FreeBSD. Things just might be in > slightly different directories. :-) Ok that's what I was hoping. (but now this ports thing has me scared) > > Good luck and > Hope you have a very nice day, :-) > Tim Ayers (tayers@bridge.com) > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message