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Everything I don't want to kno about freeBSD

Ok, so for the most part I develop on mac and run my apps on ubuntu.

But I have this older project I'm maintaining on a freeBSD distro.  So I had to do some stuff on it.  Here's the log of stuff I did

  1. Update Ports.  I guess this is the debian apt-get eqivalent of freebsd
  2. Uninstall lighttpd
  3. Reinstall lighttpd

 # portsnap fetch
 # portsnap update
 # cd /usr/ports/www/lighttpd
 # make deinstall
 # make reinstall
 

That didn't fix my problem, but had to figure this out anyway. Also the machine was monitoring lighttpd with supervise unable for me to shut down the service. If i try to stop/kill lighttpd, supervise fires it up again to my annoyance. On my machine there is a /service folder with symlinks to other folders. I had to remove the symlink from the /service folder and run a svc -dx /path/to/where/symlink/links/to

Filed under  //   unix freebsd lighttpd install ports