Re: fbsd safety of the ports

2012-02-09 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of February 9, 2012 6:36:00 AM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com is alleged to have said: TWiki is a nightmare to update ... TWiki was replaced with Foswiki (which is also in ports) at $WORK a while back. Dunno why, or how much of a job the changeover was for the admins, but there must have

Re: fbsd safety of the ports

2012-02-08 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 6:54 PM, mikel king mikel.k...@olivent.com wrote: Unfortunately, WP isn't exactly a well designed CMS form the untaring standpoint. Most aren't. TWiki is a nightmare to update, basically requiring you to copy your old content to a new install and then hand-merge the new

Re: fbsd safety of the ports

2012-02-08 Thread perryh
David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: TWiki is a nightmare to update ... TWiki was replaced with Foswiki (which is also in ports) at $WORK a while back. Dunno why, or how much of a job the changeover was for the admins, but there must have been some expected benefit to justify the effort. The

Re: fbsd safety of the ports

2012-02-07 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:37 AM, dick d...@nagual.nl wrote: I'm a bit confused. I always believed FreeBSD is a very safe system. That may be true for the core files, but what about ports. On the net I read _never_ to let the webserver be the owner of its files and yet, ports like Drupal or

Re: fbsd safety of the ports

2012-02-07 Thread mikel king
On Feb 7, 2012, at 5:15 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:37 AM, dick d...@nagual.nl wrote: I'm a bit confused. I always believed FreeBSD is a very safe system. That may be true for the core files, but what about ports. On the net I read _never_ to let the webserver be the

Re: fbsd safety of the ports

2012-02-07 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of February 7, 2012 5:59:27 PM -0500, mikel king is alleged to have said: On Feb 7, 2012, at 5:15 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:37 AM, dick d...@nagual.nl wrote: I'm a bit confused. I always believed FreeBSD is a very safe system. That may be true for the core

Re: fbsd safety of the ports

2012-02-07 Thread mikel king
On Feb 7, 2012, at 9:30 PM, Daniel Staal wrote: --As of February 7, 2012 5:59:27 PM -0500, mikel king is alleged to have said: On Feb 7, 2012, at 5:15 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:37 AM, dick d...@nagual.nl wrote: I'm a bit confused. I always believed FreeBSD is a

fbsd safety of the ports

2012-02-06 Thread dick
I'm a bit confused. I always believed FreeBSD is a very safe system. That may be true for the core files, but what about ports. On the net I read _never_ to let the webserver be the owner of its files and yet, ports like Drupal or WordPress make the files rwx for the owner (www) as well as

Re: fbsd safety of the ports

2012-02-06 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:37:17 -0600, d...@nagual.nl wrote: I'm a bit confused. I always believed FreeBSD is a very safe system. That may be true for the core files, but what about ports. On the net I read _never_ to let the webserver be the owner of its files and yet, ports like Drupal or