From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 23 20: 4:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AF5837B406 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 20:04:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f7O340c73645; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:04:00 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:04:00 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Aaron Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggested Message-ID: <20010824150400.A73463@itouchnz.itouch> References: <20010824025913.E23AF37B409@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010824025913.E23AF37B409@hub.freebsd.org>; from click46@webpimps.net on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 07:57:27PM -0700 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 On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 07:57:27PM -0700, Aaron wrote: > > After months of using FreeBSD, there is only one area in which I am > still quite fuzzy. There seems to be no real standard place to > install "stuff". For example, when I installed Samba the other day, I > decided to use ./configure --prefix=/ --exec-prefix=/usr. Bad idea, I > realized, since my 88M / slice began to fill up and now nmbd core dumps > when stopped. All third-party s/w not actively maintained by the developers goes into /usr/local; the only exception being XFree86, which goes into /usr/X11R6. If you use the ports system to build your software, all the components will end up in the `correct' places: # cd /usr/ports/net/samba # make && make install -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Opportunities are seldom labeled To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message