A jail?

[Rishi Chopra]

Simply trying to install postgresql - the message I included is what the 
system prints out when installing from the ports collection.

Andrew L. Gould wrote:

>On Thursday 08 January 2004 06:13 pm, Rishi Chopra wrote:
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>>While installing postgres I get the following:
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>>You need to create the null device in your jailed Linux environment. Run
>>this
>>outside the jail, then press enter:
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>>mkdir -m 0755 -p <Jail root dir>/dev
>>rm -f <Jail root dir>//compat/linux/dev/null
>>mknod <Jail root dir>//compat/linux/dev/null c 2 2
>>chmod 666 <Jail root dir>//compat/linux/dev/null
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>>Do I HAVE to make a jail? I was just going to run the postgresql port on
>>my FreeBSD box, sans-condom.  The box only has one user and there are no
>>security concerns to speak of.
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>>-R
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>PostgreSQL is available via the FreeBSD ports system.  It does not require a 
>jail or linux emulation.
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>What are you trying to do?
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>Andrew Gould
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