From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 7 21:47:50 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id VAA23114 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Aug 1995 21:47:50 -0700 Received: from kilgour.nething.com (kilgour.nething.com [204.253.210.65]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA23105 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 1995 21:47:47 -0700 Received: from line-24.insync.net (line-24.insync.net [204.253.208.224]) by kilgour.nething.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA03369; Mon, 7 Aug 1995 23:46:35 -0500 Message-Id: <199508080446.XAA03369@kilgour.nething.com> X-Sender: rberndt@nething.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.1.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 23:50:04 -0500 To: Gary Palmer From: Randy Berndt Subject: Re: FreeBSD web server question Cc: FreeBSD Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk At 12:15 AM 8/8/95 +0100, Gary Palmer wrote: >In message , xiaoyin li wr >ites: >>It seems that our system does not have a crypt C library function, or >>it is not in right place? Did anybody get this kind of problem before >>I appricate very much if you can let me know what is wrong there and >>how to fix it. > >Use the ports mechanism... download >ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/ports/net/cern_httpd.tar.gz, untar it, >cd into cern_httpd and type `make'... It'll automatically apply any >patches needed for FreeBSD operation and include any extra libs. > >Gary > >P.S. crypt() is in libcrypt for export reasons - it makes it easier to > substitute a version of crypt which is legal to export from the > USA... > > Did I miss something.... I installed httpd from the PACKAGES area. That supposedly does not require compiling (and it is working as we speak). Is there some reason to use the port instead of the package? Randy Berndt ---------------------------------- AOS/VS, FreeBSD, DOS: I'm in a maze of twisty little command processors, all different.