From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 2 7:28:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp010.mail.yahoo.com (smtp010.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3886B37B401 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 07:28:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unknown (HELO cheech.uchaswv.edu) (12.4.161.180) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 2 Oct 2001 14:28:48 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 10:37:21 -0400 From: Nathan Mace To: "Patrick O'Reilly" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: favorite ports? Message-Id: <20011002103721.7ea1cb80.nmace85@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20011001221641.09d5c75c.nmace85@yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Tue, 2 Oct 2001 09:32:15 +0200 "Patrick O'Reilly" wrote: > 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. what i mean is when you guys do a fresh install of freebsd for a workstation/desktop type computer...what apps do you install? for instance i've learned about nethack, nessus, mtr, and several other apps from various mailing lists that otherwise i wouldn't have known that these apps existed. i'm just asking what apps you guys might be asking so if there's any great apps out there i don't know about, you guys would be able to point out. i couple have said that i should just install what i need, how do i know what i need if i don't know whats out there? yea i know if i need an mp3/ripper frontend to install grip, if i need an network debugger get nessus/mtr/ethereal...but what about the apps that i don't know about? i don't have time to INSTALL every app in the ports tree..... 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