From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 17 01:45:38 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FF991065697 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:45:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E37E18FC0C for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:45:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o8H1jYGm065088 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:45:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:45:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:45:33 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20100917014530.GA35456@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=3.9 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on ethic.thought.org Cc: Subject: why is the PHP stuff line "off" by default in ports/lang/php5? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:45:38 -0000 Guys, Tell me if I'm wrong to be ticked off. I just learned that my website has been down for weeks. My KVM switch doesn't work to let me have control of the console of my server [ns1|ethic].thought.org. Whether it was a cheap KVM switch or whether the '09 Dell 550 is defective is unknown. I have a new KVM switch. I do need direct control of the console for many reasons, but mostly to portupgrad ports. In the months since I first got ethic working, everything _but_ X11 worked. In late August I upgraded apache and php5, rebooted, and just-assumed {TM} that apache22 was working. Weeks ago I did read and edit my non-blog blog; further reason to assume that everything worked. A couple hours ago my web server was not running. I traced it to a missing libphp5.so. I checked the makefile and found the php stuff defaults to "off". ...I am thinking this is a security risk, but most of us are reasonably sophisticated about such things .... Comments, anybody? -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org