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.
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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
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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
MySQL bought. PostgreSQL not for sale. Read More »
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 #
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