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FreeBSD + [FireBird / PostgreSQL] in a jailed enviroment

Today I ran into an interesting problem. While building firebird2-client from ports I got this little message:

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Please do not build firebird as ‘root’ because this may
cause conflicts with SysV semaphores of running services

This was easily overcome with with this short flag (and yes, I got that from peeking in the makefile):

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make -DPACKAGE_BUILDING

After the build had [...]

Edit: [Bind-DLZ + MySQL + threads a no-go}

Recently I was contacted by Marc from oriented.net web hosting due to him having a problem with Bind-DLZ and MySQL similar to one I had a while back. He had found a post I submittet to a Bind-DLZ mailinglist and wondered if I had managed to resolve the problems. After some correspondence back and forth [...]

Bind-DLZ + MySQL + threads a no-go

I recently got a question about why Bind-DLZ start behaving oddly together with the MySQL-driver from time to time (or rather from installation to installation). The problem is this: Bind starts just fine, and returns data as it should. However, after a given amount of time it just dies (yup, like your grandma, bless her [...]

FreeBSD 6.2 + Apache 2.2 + PHP5 + php5-recode = crash

Today I set out to configure another simple jail, and ran into some problems when doing the usual ‘cd /usr/local/ports/lang/php5-extensions && make install’.

I had chosen quite a few extensions to install, and they were installed without any drama. The problem presented itself when starting the webserver. Apache would load the php5-module, then silently die, leaving [...]