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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to run the X-Server & FREEBSD as an Internet Server.
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 17:01:42 +0000
Organization: Erol's Internet Services
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Andrew G Dickinson wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
>         Hello there, I am new to this forumn and would like to post a
> question in regard to FREEBSD. In the past I have tried installing the
> AUGUST 1996 "CDROM.COM" CDROM which I have subscribed to. The
> installation goes okay, until I try to start the X-server which then
> causes no end of problems. Is there any files any where which explain
> what I should do?

Did you run xf86config to set it up for your hardware?

> 
>         I am also interested in using FREEBSD as a frontage to an
> Internet scheme with the Company which I work for. Does anyone have
> experience of setting up and using FREEBSD as a Mail Server, and WEB
> Server.

I use Apache (currently 1.1.1) for my httpd server; it works fine
straight out of the package for general use, or you can go to
http://www.apache.org to get the source and further info.

If you want to run a POP server, get qpop from packages-current at the
FreeBSD ftp site. It works fine even in 2.1R, except you need to set up
a symlink to point libc.so.3.0 to libc.so.2.2 .

I hope this helps.
-- 
Ken

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