The FreeBSD diaries ... installing filePro for FreeBSD

[Mark Comins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com [mailto:filepro-list-
> bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of Brian K. White
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 5:31 AM
> To: filePro mailing list
> Subject: Re: The FreeBSD diaries ... installing filePro for FreeBSD
> 
> Walter Vaughan wrote:
> > Only other setting from default on PuTTy is to use "SCO" function
> > keys. Which bites until I get it figured out since the up arrow key
> > no longer gives me the last command typed.
> 
> There is another screen in putty where the TERM variable is set to
"xterm"
> by default.
> This, when you log in, the shell thinks you are using an xterm and so
your
> scoansi up-arrow sequence goes unrecognized.
> 
> I think it's under "telnet" in the settings.
> change "xterm" to "cons25"
> 
> then add cons25 to the label line for the ansi|scoansi|cansi entry in
fp
> termcap.
> so it'll be like:
> cons25|ansi|scoansi|...|Color SCO Ansi Console:\
> 
> The freebsd console is almost exactly the same as the sco ansi
console.
> 
> The reason I say to add cons25 to the fp termcap, rather than change
xterm
> to ansi in the putty config,
> is because using a TERM value of "ansi" would require more hacking of
the
> stock termcap & terminfo than the other way.
> 
> If you had already known about this setting from using putty on sco,
and
> had
> changed xterm to ansi, then the reason that didn't work is because on
> anything but a sco box, the "ansi" in the system termcap & terminfo is
> just
> a crude minimal definition that is only used by being included in
other
> ansi-based terminal definitions and as a reference for the codes and
is
> not
> a useful definition on it's own. The reason it worked for filepro is
> because
> your fp termcap does have an ansi definition that matches sco ansi and
> that
> includes everything necessary for fp to work.
> 
> > Printing was another issue that only took a second to see the light.
> >
> > We print to various Windows boxes. We used custom hacked smbprint
> > models to do it. With Webmin, we created printers in a mouse click,
> > and had to change what was in printer maintenance or
> > /appl/fp/lib/config from using "lp -ddest" to "lpr -Pdest". Once
that
> > was done, everything prints just fine. And we've got a much easier
to
> > manage printer environment.
> >
> > Stay tuned. This afternoon we tackle printing to hylaxfax spoolers
and
> > barcode printers.
> 
> What about backup software? More importantly, what about "disaster
> recovery"
> software?
> 
> Anyone can dump a cpio or enhanced tar like star to a tape. That could
> reasonably be called a backup. But that requires someone fairly
> knowledgeable to restore from it and would probably require an hour or
> three
> on top of the time it takes for the tape to run plus getting ahold of
you
> and you getting yourself to their site...
> 
> I mean something that lets a complete user restore an entire system
from a
> tape and a boot floppy onto a completely new hard drive of a different
> size,
> without having to know how to do a fresh install, and taking no more
time
> than it takes for the floppy to boot and the tape to run. We use ctar
for
> that on sco, but I tried ctars freebsd demo one time and it wouldn't
even
> run on my box. Maybe BackupEdge has a freebsd version and maybe it's
less
> finicky about kernel versions.
> 

LoneTar has a FreeBSD version that does not include their AirBag.

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