Joe-Ma Help with Unix, Apple, Web, Mikrotik and Cisco

One of the things I love about FreeBSD is the ports directory. The ability to install and upgrade any port simply by going to /usr/ports/porttype/portname i.e. /usr/ports/www/apache13 then all you have to do is type in make and make install or in many cases make install clean and you are on your way. The system connects to various mirror sites and downloads the entire source needed to install the port. Of course it can become a little painful if you are trying to install 3 identical ports on 3 different servers or trying to upgrade a port that is on 5 or 6 or more servers. I don’t mind running the portupgrade pkg-name command 5 or 6 times, but the problem is the server downloads the source package 5 or 6 times depending on how many servers that port needs to be installed or upgraded on. So how to save time and bandwidth for port upgrades? Well that’s simple, but as always you have to take in to account some possible security issues. The way we have used here is to use NFS, which by no ...