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Date:      Wed, 23 Sep 1998 12:38:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>
To:        David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to enable SNMP on a FreeBSD router ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.HPP.3.96.980923123616.27441D-100000@hp9000.chc-chimes.com>
In-Reply-To: <199809232022.NAA06963@pau-amma.whistle.com>

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On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, David Wolfskill wrote:

> >PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE RECOMMEND FROM THE PORTS COLLECTION.
> 
> Although I appreciate the suggestion & the sentiment behind it, in my
> case, I'll readily admit that it's a lack of familiarity with FreeBSD's
> "ports" collection -- and a lack of familiarity with customizing software
> from within the "port".

(cd /usr/ports/category/portname && make extract)

puts the source code in /usr/ports/category/portname/work, which is
normally how I mess with source code if I don't want the straight port.

> And if I'm tinkering with the most recent snapshot of a development
> version of something (such as amanda), the ports collection -- as far as
> I can tell -- isn't relevant.

UCD-SNMP (the package in question) isn't a 'development' version, thus the
ports reccomendation.

> I'm certainly willing to be corrected, but my available time for
> learning FreeBSD-specific ways of doing things I've been doing since '86
> (and that still basically work) is pretty limited.

Understood. I constantly 'ps -ef' on my FreeBSD box, and 'ps -aux' on my
HP/UX box. Habits _are_ hard to break.

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