now offline
I shut down the server about 24 minutes ago. Happy shipping.
16.5 hours until the move
At 10:30am EST, the server will be shut down and deracked. Then it will be shipped to Austin. Donations for shipping are doing well. Thank you. I know the new IP block, the router, and the DNS servers. I have already amended the following files: /etc/rc.conf – ifconfig aliases, defaultrouter /etc/pf.conf – host IP addresses
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FreshPorts website moved
The FreshPorts website has moved. It was at 216.168.29.4 and is now at 64.147.113.42, on the other side of the country. If your DNS is lagged, you will be redirected from http://www.freshports.org/ to http://beta.freshports.org/. Once your DNS catches up, you won’t be directed. This wonderful solution is accomplished with this directive on the old website:
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FreshPorts server moving to Austin
The FreshPorts server is moving from San Jose to Austin. The server has been kindly and expertly hosted by Supernews since it arrived there in November 2006. However, Supernews has been bought by Giganews, who have kindly offerred to take over the hosting and sponsorship of FreshPorts. Here’s a map showing the source and destination.
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Searching all commits
FreshPorts can now search all commits, not just /ports. Looking for commits in /src? Now you can. Click on Include /src tree. Enjoy.
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BSD Certification Group’s BSDA certification goes gold
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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make showconfig + OPTIONSFILE
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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MySQL bought. PostgreSQL not for sale.
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
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Configuration options – showconfig
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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Out of date ports tree
Today I noticed a problem with my development machine. It has been in storage for about a month. Yesterday it started processing FreshPorts emails again. Overnight, I noticed a strange error which I could not follow: Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Dec 31 20:33:11 ngaio FreshPorts[93781]: error executing make command for sysutils/rsyslog-mysql: This command (FreshPorts code
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