Re: Yay! Victory RevServer runs on FreeBSD with Linux Compat installed.

2011-04-19 Thread Kee Nethery
I've not used FreeBSD but two data points. A guy in the building where I live runs an online business that gets lots of hack attacks and he long ago switched to FreeBSD for his servers because in his experience it is way more secure than any of the Linux distros. Secondly, a friend of mine

Re: Yay! Victory RevServer runs on FreeBSD with Linux Compat installed.

2011-04-19 Thread Andre Garzia
Kee, The three big BSDs (FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD) are all great. In 1999, I worked with NetBSD servers, this year, I went on to build myself a FreeBSD server and my knowledge from 1999 was instantly transferable. Things are where they should be. It is very easy to configure and secure a

Re: Yay! Victory RevServer runs on FreeBSD with Linux Compat installed.

2011-04-19 Thread Bob Sneidar
My take on FreeBSD was that it was a very promising non-mainstream OS but never caught on large scale. There was talk, if I am remembering right, about Sun suing anyone who made anything that looked like Unix for a while there. I think that scared a lot of people off. I'm glad it still lives.

Re: Yay! Victory RevServer runs on FreeBSD with Linux Compat installed.

2011-04-18 Thread Andre Garzia
Folks, For anyone following this, I was unable to connect with MySQL or SQLite database using linux compatibility in FreeBSD. I believe that RevDB External and the Database Drivers need some uninstalled shared libraries but since they are no in ELF Format, I can't use ldd to find out whos

Re: Yay! Victory RevServer runs on FreeBSD with Linux Compat installed.

2011-04-13 Thread Andre Garzia
Thanks Pierre, I don't know about security daemons on FreeBSD. I know that the system is very secure when configured correctly and very stable. Can you or somebody try to access http://bsd.soapdog.org and tell me if it opens? I am having problems here with my ISP, it appears that people from WAN

Re: Yay! Victory RevServer runs on FreeBSD with Linux Compat installed.

2011-04-13 Thread Devin Asay
On Apr 13, 2011, at 12:53 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: Thanks Pierre, I don't know about security daemons on FreeBSD. I know that the system is very secure when configured correctly and very stable. Can you or somebody try to access http://bsd.soapdog.org and tell me if it opens? I am having

Re: Yay! Victory RevServer runs on FreeBSD with Linux Compat installed.

2011-04-13 Thread stephen barncard
the most relevant part is This system is running Linux bsd.devacode.com.br 2.6.16 FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Feb 18 02:24:46 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux . nice. On 13 April 2011 12:33, Devin Asay devin_a...@byu.edu wrote: On Apr 13, 2011, at 12:53 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: Thanks

Re: Yay! Victory RevServer runs on FreeBSD with Linux Compat installed.

2011-04-13 Thread Andre Garzia
Thanks guys! it works! :-D Cheers andre On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 4:38 PM, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote: the most relevant part is This system is running Linux bsd.devacode.com.br 2.6.16 FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Feb 18 02:24:46 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Re: Yay! Victory RevServer runs on FreeBSD with Linux Compat installed.

2011-04-13 Thread Pierre Sahores
'Evening Andre, Yep. It works there too in displaying the Welcome to revIgniter! message. Thanks Pierre, I don't know about security daemons on FreeBSD. I know that the system is very secure when configured correctly and very stable. Did you have an eye on SELinux, the security demon witch

Re: Yay! Victory RevServer runs on FreeBSD with Linux Compat installed.

2011-04-13 Thread Andre Garzia
CentOS 5.6 works perfectly fine in about revserver+postgresql web driven apps :-) On the other hand, i could't run such revserver+postgresql web driven apps under OpenSuse 11.3 + PG 8.4.7 nor OpenSuse 11.4 + PG 9.0.3 for yet. Did you went more successfully than me on this ? Pierre, I

Re: Yay! Victory RevServer runs on FreeBSD with Linux Compat installed.

2011-04-13 Thread Pierre Sahores
Thanks for those precisions, Andre ! Seems i will not resist to test how BSD handle revserver+PG yet... Your fault ;-) Le 13 avr. 2011 à 22:37, Andre Garzia a écrit : I think I got it running on OpenSuse 11.0 or something like that but if I rememeber correctly it involved installing some

Re: Yay! Victory RevServer runs on FreeBSD with Linux Compat installed.

2011-04-13 Thread Pierre Sahores
RevServer works OK under OpenSuse. It's the revdb.so and/or revPG.so whose don't. I think I got it running on OpenSuse 11.0 or something like that but if I rememeber correctly it involved installing some libraries by hand. -- Pierre Sahores mobile : (33) 6 03 95 77 70 www.wrds.com

Re: Yay! Victory RevServer runs on FreeBSD with Linux Compat installed.

2011-04-13 Thread Andre Garzia
give me a couple days, I will install pg here and try it out... I have mysql installed but so far no testing done because I can't believe it will actually work and am afraid that my beliefs will again be shattered (I thought that linux compat would never work) On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 5:58 PM,

Yay! Victory RevServer runs on FreeBSD with Linux Compat installed.

2011-04-12 Thread Andre Garzia
Folks, Just to tell people here that RevServer runs on FreeBSD 8.1 with the Linux Binary Compatibility ports installed. It takes a while to install all the needed Linux version of the libraries but it works. A screenshot:

Re: Yay! Victory RevServer runs on FreeBSD with Linux Compat installed.

2011-04-12 Thread Pierre Sahores
Congratulations Andre ;D Does FreeBSD run an SELinux (RedHat) or AppArmor(Suse) kind of security demon. Kind regards, Pierre PS : a little configuration+make+make install on the revserver sources et voilà, mothership compile an up to date revserver for FreeBSD available for sale. Would be