Hello everyone,
I am a beginner so please bear with me.
I recently installed FreeBSD on an older machine of mine. My goal with this machine is to learn how to run and admin a secure server, so I didn't want that many programs added with the initial install. My plan was to just add programs (packages?) as I needed them.
First thing I did was freebsd-update, and I added a crontab entry to have it done nightly.
I did some more searching online and saw a recommendation to update my ports.
I installed portmanager, and then did portsnap fetch extract. I then did portmanager -u to update all my installed ports.
Now I'm not sure if I did something wrong here but it seems like I just installed all kinds of things that I didn't have and didn't want.
Were all these ports originally on my system and I just updated all of them? Or did I get _all_ the available FreeBSD ports by doing portsnap fetch extract?
Regardless, how do I go about trimming the fat off my system and getting rid of all these things that I don't want or need? I definitely don't want X11, or any of the foreign language manuals/docs. Only things I really want besides the necessary basics are SSHD, and the C/Python programming languages.
Thanks for your time guys, and lesson learned for me, I wont ever type anything into my console that I don't really understand.
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I am a beginner so please bear with me.
I recently installed FreeBSD on an older machine of mine. My goal with this machine is to learn how to run and admin a secure server, so I didn't want that many programs added with the initial install. My plan was to just add programs (packages?) as I needed them.
First thing I did was freebsd-update, and I added a crontab entry to have it done nightly.
I did some more searching online and saw a recommendation to update my ports.
I installed portmanager, and then did portsnap fetch extract. I then did portmanager -u to update all my installed ports.
Now I'm not sure if I did something wrong here but it seems like I just installed all kinds of things that I didn't have and didn't want.
Were all these ports originally on my system and I just updated all of them? Or did I get _all_ the available FreeBSD ports by doing portsnap fetch extract?
Regardless, how do I go about trimming the fat off my system and getting rid of all these things that I don't want or need? I definitely don't want X11, or any of the foreign language manuals/docs. Only things I really want besides the necessary basics are SSHD, and the C/Python programming languages.
Thanks for your time guys, and lesson learned for me, I wont ever type anything into my console that I don't really understand.
�e