Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 22:41:38 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> Cc: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>, FreeBSD - <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is there a database built into the base system Message-ID: <20170406224138.b212d361.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <58E69E59.6020108@gmail.com> References: <58E696BD.6050503@gmail.com> <69607026-F68C-4D9D-A826-3EFE9ECE12AB@mac.com> <58E69E59.6020108@gmail.com>
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On Thu, 06 Apr 2017 16:00:25 -0400, Ernie Luzar wrote: > Chuck Swiger wrote: > > On Apr 6, 2017, at 12:27 PM, Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Looking for a simple database thats comes with the base system, is there one? > > > > There's likely an old flavor of BerkeleyDB around if you just need a key-value store. > > > > If you're looking for a SQL database, start with SQLite (cf databases/sqlite3 port), > > and then look towards MySQL or Postgres. > > > > Regards, > > BerkeleyDB sounds like something to look at. Did a "locate Berkeley" cmd > and nothing popped out. Is it called something else? Check "man db" (or "man dbopen") for introduction. The header file /usr/include/db.h has additional details. > Writing csh scripts [...] No. Just no. Don't write C shell scripts. I did it. Once. It was terrible (and the result still works). ;-) More details here: http://sc.tamu.edu/help/other/CshProgrammingConsideredHarmful.html > [...] manipulating text files containing lists of IP > address. If your data has a more or less specific format (like CSV), you could use awk for that task. But maybe a database tool like the BerkeleyDB is better in many aspects. > Don't want any port as a required dependent. Good approach for dealing with firewall-related programming (which is a "OS-mostly" thing). > I though I > remembered that BerkeleyDB came with the base system, but can not find > what its named. It's basically an API to system libraries, not a specific program called by the user. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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