The FreeBSD diaries ... installing filePro for FreeBSD

[Bill Vermillion]

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 09:05:31AM -0400, Walter Vaughan thus
spoke:

> Fairlight wrote:
>
> >Confusious (Walter Vaughan) say:

> >>him an additional $125 to install FreeBSD 4.10 and make sure
> >>it worked

> >That's a puzzler to me. It's my understanding that 4.5 is the
> >RELEASE version, and even 4.4 is quite aged at this point. Why
> >would you be going with 4.10?

> Because 4.10 comes after 4.9. 4.10 is now in RC3 and will become 
> 4.10-RELEASE later this week or whenever they decide it to do it.

> Kinda like filePro 5.0.10 was newer than 5.0.9

> ...

> Back to filePro on FreeBSD.

> So far, even BrianW's ghostpcl integration with his reptmail
> shell script seems to be on the right track. FreeBSD doesn't
> come with korn shell as a default. And it took me a second
> after I installed the korn shell port that for some reason it
> installed it as /usr/local/bin/ksh93. Weird, but for testing
> purposes I just changed the shell script. BillV might have
> an idea as to what I "really should have done" to get a ksh
> without having to make a symbolic link (which I haven't done
> yet).

Two things that I always do on the ksh ports.  First everything
that is built in ports gets installed in /usr/local/bin.

That means you can totally reinstall the OS, and if you wish even
remake the / partition without ever touching your locally installed
files.  That is a good thing IMO.

Since the ksh installs just as David Korn specs it, ksh93 as
opposed to ksh?? [the earlier one] that part is not modified.
The install also puts /usr/local/bin/ksh93 into /etc/shells.

I do NOT link the /usr/local/bin/ksh93 but perform copy -r to 
/bin/ksh, and modify the /etc/shells.

BUT - one other thing I do is on the build of the port
is I invoke with    make -DWANT_STATIC  while in the
/usr/ports/shells/ksh93 directory.

That's the way I do it.  After that I make /bin/ksh the default
shell for root.   The default shell still shows at csh but in
reality it is tsch, and the pure /bin/sh is the shell you get
when you start in single user mode useing   boot -s

I may be anal but I like to have all my core files linked
statically so they will run standalone no matter what else happens.
That means they can be even copied to floppy if needed.  That's the
default in FBSD 4, but changes in 5, but can be changed with user
over-rides at install.   

There are a total of 38 files in /bin, and all are static except 
rmail and that really doesn't matter as you'd never need that if
you were trying to rebuild from a single-user login.

So 37 statically linked files are not going to take up that much
space.  And with that the base OS [eg / only] will almost always
take less that 60MB on install, and I routinely just make
/ a 100MB or at the most a 150MB fs.

> Today we tackle faxing and emailing from filePro.
> 
> Yesterday I attended a seminar on "storyboard planning" a-la Disney,
> GE, Caterpillar, ... et al. Highly interesting.
> 
> --
> Walter
> 
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