From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 2 7:38:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 4evermail.com (equinox.4evermail.com [204.92.209.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 907D737B405 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 07:38:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 64639 invoked from network); 2 Oct 2001 14:38:47 -0000 Received: from 24-168-51-252.nyc.rr.com (HELO equinox) (jslivko@24.168.51.252) by equinox.4evermail.com with SMTP; 2 Oct 2001 14:38:47 -0000 Message-ID: <00eb01c14b4f$f2e0c180$fc33a818@equinox> From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" To: "Nathan Mace" , "Patrick O'Reilly" Cc: References: <20011001221641.09d5c75c.nmace85@yahoo.com> <20011002103721.7ea1cb80.nmace85@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: favorite ports? Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 10:38:48 -0400 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-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG No, you can look at the pkg-descrip in the ports directory of the specific port. -- Jonathan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Mace" To: "Patrick O'Reilly" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 10:37 AM Subject: Re: favorite ports? > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message