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Re: FreeBSD Client

2000-12-10 19:40:25
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Client
From: Keith Davey <kdavey AT GUS33.HOMEIP DOT NET>
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 17:21:58 -0700
I have seeing the beta 3.1 linux client succesfully run backup and restore
operations on NetBSD box.  However the 3.7 and 4.1 clients will not
execute in that environment.

On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Carl Makin wrote:

> Hi Brian,
>
> On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Brian Heiling wrote:
>
> > Has anyone seen a FreeBSD client for TSM ?
>
> There is currently no FreeBSD client.  Feel free to badger your
> IBM salesdroid about getting one.
>
> > Or has anyone successfully ran another client (like SCO) under FreeBSD ?
>
> We've been using the SCO v2 client under FreeBSD 3.x and 4.x reasonably
> successfully although it has a few warts.
>
> There is a patch floating around for FreeBSD that will disable (via
> sysctl) the Linux emulation drive remappings which is what is stopping the
> linux client being useful.  That will cause problems if you are running
> any other linux binaries on that system though.
>
> If you want a copy of the SCO v2 stuff we're using here then email me and
> I'll mail it to you. (~2Mb).
>
>
> Carl.
>
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