From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 27 6:31:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tgz.techgodz.com (mdsnwi13-vlan436-120.dsl.tds.net [66.222.30.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26D1937B416 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 06:31:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from sonic (unknown [192.168.1.101]) by tgz.techgodz.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 87C035DA7 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 08:31:10 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <002201c1d59c$0b1a6c20$6501a8c0@techgodz.com> From: "John" To: References: <200203262226.XAA27664@galaxy.de.cp.philips.com> <026501c1d561$90d61de0$0200a8c0@gauss> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: sendmail 8.12.2 MFC'ed Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 08:31:11 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm probably not one to get involved in the conversation at this point (it seems to have gone nearly off it's topic).. Pell Yeasah wrote: >I've noticed that there are, in fact, sendmail and bind ports -- does >anybody use them? if so, why, and do they interact poorly with their >src-contrib counterparts? If not, why are they there? Is there some >political struggle afoot to cleave these packages from the BSD sources >proper? Are these old, deprecated ports? I'm a *nix newbie. I ran into this the other day. Had my system completely up and running. (Internet gateway, NAT box, several other packages config'd successfully). Decided I wanted to install Bind9. I cvsup'd, and went in and installed Bind9 from ports. Config'd it according to the bind9 doc, and when I started named, naturally it started 8.2.4 (Free 4.4 Rel), rather than the 9.2.1.rc1 that I had installed. Now I've got Bind installed twice, and have no idea what's the best way to get it working properly. I'll have to bait friends over with beer and pizza to get them to help me fix :( Is there doc for the ports tree apps ANYWHERE that describes locations that things are installed to, or what config files are necessary, possibly even how to admin different apps when installed from the ports tree?? (Especially since it seems that when installed from ports, it doesn't install them in their default locations.. thus I have named in /usr/local/sbin, and /usr/sbin...) I'm a beginner, and my biggest help with my FreeBSD boxes is a linux guy, who keeps telling me "FreeBSD is F'Kd up. They do things screwey". My experiences with cvsup and installing from ports were excellent, until I ran into the Bind prob. Just my 2c. John Ricker To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message