A jail?

[Rishi Chopra]

I was installing linux_base; it seems to be required, since I was 
getting an error about libintl.so.4 - then again, I also updated gmake 
via 'portupgrade -r gmake', so that may have solved the problem.

Sorry about the misleading context =)

BSD wrote:

>On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 06:07:35PM -0800, Rishi Chopra wrote:
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>>Simply trying to install postgresql - the message I included is what the 
>>system prints out when installing from the ports collection.
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>>Andrew L. Gould wrote:
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>Er, what directory were you in when you did the make install? The only
>port that produces the message below is ports/emulators/linux_base,
>which is definately not a dependency of postgresql, nor of any of its
>dependents.
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>>>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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