[Gllug] FreeBSD - errrm this might be slightly OT ;-)

[Xander D Harkness]

I think that I may take the opportunity to look more into FreeBSD in my 
own time, away from probable root compromises in the current setup.

I also think the comment regarding using a system that you know is safer 
than one you do not is a good bet.

It will be replaced by Exim and Linux early next week.

Thanks to everyone for comments.

Kind regards
Xander



Dan Kolb wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> 
> 
>>I have just been given responsibility for the company's FreeBSD 
>>mailserver.  None of the windows guys wanted it even though they do all 
>>the company mail.
>>
>>Updating packages in Linux I would use aptget, rpm or source.
>>
>>Is there anything similar in FreeBSD?  Or is it all source?
>>
> 
> As mentioned before, the ports collection builds software (+
> dependencies) from source. However, there are a number of pre-compiled
> packages available from your favorite FTP mirror of
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/
> Have a look at the direcoties most appropriate to your release version.
> 
> 
>>I believe that the server has not been updated in a while and 
>>consequently probably needs it now :-)
>>
> 
> As for upgrading the system - the best way is to get it done by source
> from CVS, and a rebuild. Or, if you don't want to do that, get yourself
> 4.3-RELEASE from ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.3-RELEASE/ or
> an ISO image from /ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/
> 
> If you get the individual files (rather than the ISO), then you need to
> run 'install.sh' from each of the directories.
> 
> Hope this helps :-)
> 
> Dan
> 



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