Upgrading Ports using Portupgrade
The portupgrade utility is designed to easily upgrade installed ports. It is available from the ports-mgmt/portupgrade port. Install it like any other port, using the make install clean command:
# cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade
# make install clean
Scan the list of installed ports with the pkgdb -F command and fix all the inconsistencies it reports. It is a good idea to do this regularly, before every upgrade.
When you run portupgrade -a, portupgrade will begin to upgrade all the outdated ports installed …
Upgrading Ports using Portmanager
Portmanager is another utility for easy upgrading of installed ports. It is available from the ports-mgmt/portmanager port:
# cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmanager
# make install clean
All the installed ports can be upgraded using this simple command:
# portmanager -u
You can add the -ui flag to get asked for confirmation of every step Portmanager will perform. Portmanager can also be used to install new ports on the system. Unlike the usual make install clean command, it will upgrade all the dependencies prior to …
Ports and Disk Space
Using the Ports Collection will use up disk space over time. After building and installing software from the ports, you should always remember to clean up the temporary work directories using the make clean command. You can sweep the whole Ports Collection with the following command:
# portsclean -C
You will accumulate a lot of old source distribution files in the distfiles directory over time. You can remove them by hand, or you can use the following command to …
By default, MySQL’s datadir is placed in the /var/lib/mysql directory.
Create the directory that will be new datadir (ex:-/home/db)
chown the directory to the mysql:mysql user
sudo chown -R mysql:mysql /home/db/*
You need to stop the mysql server using the following command
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop
Now you need to edit the /etc/mysql/my.cnf file
sudo vi /etc/mysql/my.cnf
and look for “datadir = /var/lib/mysql” this si where mysql database default data directory here you need to change this one to your new directory
datadir = /home/db
copy the files from the old …
