After quite some time with little on the outside but lots of busy
action on the inside, the
BSD Certification Group’s
BSD Associate (BSDA) certification
is now
available!
The BSD Associate certification marks the entry level for professional,
community-based BSD certification, and work will continue to offer a
certification for BSD Professionals (BSDP) next.

Two posts ago, I wrote about adding the output of showconfig to each port. I also mentioned how I should override OPTIONSFILE so FreshPorts shows the default options settings, not those particular to the FreshPorts server.
Here is the output of show config for sysutils/bacula-server:

$ cd /usr/ports/sysutils/bacula-server
$ make show config
===> The following configuration options […]

A very key point in this article. Product vs project.
Read: http://people.planetpostgresql.org/greg/index.php?/archives/120-Postgres-is-not-for-sale.html

When people ask me about packages versus ports, the one main advantage of ports over packages is the ability to set the configuration options. To set the configuration options for a given port, issue this command:
make config
Configuration options are stored in /var/db/ports. For example, the options for sysutils/bacula-server are:

$ less /var/db/ports/bacula-server/options
# This file […]