Subject: Re: NetBSD/Cobalt and web-published databases
To: Brian <bmcewen@comcast.net>
From: Byron Servies <bservies@pacang.com>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 10/17/2004 21:49:00
On Oct 17, 2004, at 6:47 PM, Brian wrote:

>
> Hi all;
>
> I'd asked once in the past about getting dbases on the web from 
> NetBSD; I have just read about a seeming cost-effective tool to 
> convert from FilMaker Pro 4 format (which I was using on an old Mac to 
> web-publish a small dbase) to a format that you can use with MySQL or 
> PostgreSQL of others ( 
> http://www.dotcomsolutionsinc.net/products/fmpro_migrator/index.html> 
> ) so I"m going to try it.
>
> Is anyone using PostgresSQL on their Qube/ NetBSD 1.6.1?
> It's in pkgsrc as v. 7.4 I think, it's been ages since I updated so I 
> am going to do that shortly.
> But something being in pkgsrc doesn't _always_ mean it works OK in all 
> ports.
>

Hi,

I'm running postgres 7.3.4 on my qube2.  I did have a problem building 
it, but that has been fixed now.  You will also need to change your 
kernel settings for shared memory.  All can be found in the PR:

<http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=25473>

HTH,

Byron