From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 2 0:30:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mip.co.za (puck.mip.co.za [209.212.106.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D76837B40B for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 00:30:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from patrick (patrick.mip.co.za [10.3.13.181]) by mip.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA37185; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 09:29:37 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from patrick@mip.co.za) From: "Patrick O'Reilly" To: "Nathan Mace" , "freebsd-questions" Subject: RE: favorite ports? Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 09:32:15 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 In-Reply-To: <20011001221641.09d5c75c.nmace85@yahoo.com> Importance: Normal 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 Nathan, as said by others, this question is rather vague. It depends on what you need... Anyway, some that I tend to install on most boxes I configure (I've probably done about 30 now): Apache+SSL for web servers. mod-perl for web-servers. php4 if you prefer PHP to Perl. PostgreSQL if you need a relational DB. bash 'cos I like it. mreport usage reports for mail servers. majordomo if you need to manage mailing lists. When I build firewalls I add NOTHING (except bash)! FreeBSD with ipfw does the job beautifully. I must admit with embarrassment that I have yet to get CVSup running. It's about time I do something about that! Others you might look for under ports (like ssh, sendmail, popper, named(BIND), ntp) are part of the standard FreeBSD installation. I have never had reason to use anything other than BSD's own for these. Patrick. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Nathan Mace Sent: 02 October 2001 04:17 To: freebsd-questions Subject: favorite ports? would the regulars on this mailing list post a short list of their fav ports and short description of what they do? the reason i'm asking is because i still kinda new to *BSD and am wondering what ports are worth installing and which ones aren't. thanks nathan _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message