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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 [...]

You want to take my bottled water?

These past few years we’ve seen airport security being tightened alot. This is on part due to recent terrorist attacks. Some examples are the Twin Towers incident (USA – 09/11-01), the bombs in Bali (Indonesia – 10/12-02), bombs on commuter trains in Madrid (Spain – 03/11-04) and the situation with the hostages in Beslan (Russia [...]