fp on feebsd

[Bill Vermillion]

On or about Tue, Sep 14 13:01 , while attempting a Zarathustra 
emulation Enrique Arredondo thus spake: 

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bill Vermillion" <fp at wjv.com>
> To: "filePro List" <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 10:17 AM
> Subject: Re: fp on feebsd

[LOTS deleted - wjv]


> >But many things are still 32 bit mode - so fsck fails at 2TB.
> >du and df have some problems. All of this from a document
> >dated jsut 4 days ago.
> >
> >Put in the 4.10 and so as Walter suggests - upgrade. However
> >do try your SCO on the 4.10. The chance are good that it will
> >work.
>
> I installed 4.10 and then *fp 4 OSR5* and didn't work (same
> thing as 5.13 I wasn't expect it to work anyway), then I tried
> *fp 4 LINUX* and got some errors about "syscall setfsuid16 is
> obsolete" but it works 50%. The Linux binaries seem at least to
> be displaying the right screen format for clerk,etc... I think
> I have to go to eBay and buy the evaluation version for filepro
> on FreeBSD :-)

"didn't work".  ??  - 

The only time I'll accept an answer like that is if NOTHING
happened - and I suspect you at least got some error messages.

If you just got a prompt back with nothing I'd be very surprised.

FreeBSD will run Unix binaries - but why do I suspect you have not
even given the handbook a cursory examination.

FreeBSD is a BSD system and is not System V [like SCO] or a System
V workalike as Linux.   I bet you didn't even look at the
sysintall options that has options to let you install
Linux compatibility, SVR4, and most importantly IBCS2
compatibility.  That one is labeled SCO.   The SCO FP will not run 
unless you have at least the IBSC2 enabled.

Type   kldstat   and see what comes up.  That shows you 
the kernel loadable modules that have been load.  
apropos kld  will list all the appropriate man pages.

You should join the freebsd-newbies and the  freebsd-questions
mailing lists for a start.  There are about 40 separate lists
dedicated to different areas.

> With all these exercises I've been researching with so I can
> migrate away from OSR506 to the 3 possible distros 1.-OSR 507
> 2.-suse Linux 9.1 enterprise 3.-FreeBSD 4.1/5.13, I can tell
> you that it's a lot easier to jump from OSR5 to Linux because
> most of the commands behave the same. I'm sure that FreeBSD now
> is the best of them all but I need to learn the new commands.

Read the handbook.   It's on line, or as I said on your system
if you installed it.

You say "it's a lot easy to jump from OSR5 to Linux because most of
the commands behave the same".  If you only learn the commands you
will stumble when things change - even within the OS.  If you learn
the design of Unix and learn the system, then you can make any Unix
or Unix work-alike system do what you want it too.


> Going from OSR 506 to OSR 507 is paying again for all licenses,
> and even if I want to reinstall OSR506, my license certificates
> belong to earlier versions that were upgraded to the latest
> 506, so I have to reinstall the old crap to get the current
> crap if not I can't use the licenses.

> anyway, I'll keep Researching on FreeBSD and Suse.

> The good thing about all these mambo mambo is that filepro is fully 
> compatible on database/processing so I have to only worry about the OS. 

If you do mean 'mambo' when you said it there, I just looked into
a mambo install by a person who had run Unix in the past. As long
as a person used the application and it had not holes you would be
OK. But he followed the installation instructions EXACTLY and
if ANYONE with any privledged at all could get to a shell they
could completely wipe out the system.

The docs said to change the modes [via chmod] to 707!!!
And he did with using -R . as the argument so it changed the
direcotry he was in and not just the sub-directories which
made it even worse.

Bill


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