Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 22:17:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dedicated Servers and XFree86u Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910022209410.24161-100000@guru.phone.net> In-Reply-To: <37F6E3F6.C8119977@dreamfire.net>
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On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Sean-Paul Rees wrote: :->I was attempting to install PostgreSQL on a server today, and it :->requires TK8.0. TK requires X. This particular server runs headless, :->keyboardless, and is controlled 100% by remote. I'd rather not have X :->installed, to save diskspace and any present/future security holes it :->may open. :-> :->How do I get the software I want, without having to install X; or is X :->pretty much a necessity? X isn't strictly necessary, but many thing need to have specific flags set to turn off the requirements. However, if you want to run X clients on the machine - the tcl/tk front end to PostgreSQL, for instance, or xterm, or load, or ... - you'll need X installed. For PostgreSQL (I'm looking at a 3.3-RELEASE machine), it looks like you must have built it with USE_TCL=yes. This builds PostgreSQL 6.4.2, and 6.5 is out, so you may have a new port which enables TCL by default (that seems to be common). Personally, I wound up installing X after the fact to get some X client working - even on the headless servers - that I now just install it by default. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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