Binary packages for the MicroServer Howto - Appendix

This page lists detailed additional information for using binary packages on the OpenMicroServer.

Automatically starting a program as daemon

Verify entries in /etc/rc.conf to start a script in /usr/pkg/etc/rc.d

If you want a program to start automatically, add it to /etc/rc.conf. The example below is for openssh.

/etc/rc.conf

sshd=YES

As variable name (on the left), specify the name of the script in /usr/pkg/etc/rc.d.

How to use PHP libraries

To use packages that start with "php-", they need to be added to the php setting file, in the "Dynamic Extensions" block. The example below is for php-bz2.

/usr/pkg/etc/php.ini

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Dynamic Extensions ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

[...]
extension=bz2.so

You check the name of the library with the pkg_info command. The example below is for php-bz2.

# pkg_info -D php5-bz2
Information for php5-bz2-5.2.5:

Install notice:
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$NetBSD: MESSAGE.module,v 1.1 2004/11/05 21:40:25 jdolecek Exp $

To enable this module, add the following to /usr/pkg/etc/php.ini:

    extension=bz2.so

and make sure extension_dir points to the dir where bz2.so is.

Then restart your PHP5-enabled HTTP server to load this module.
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