On Apr 12, 2010, at 11:51 AM, G8KBV wrote: > In article <hpuekj$rc...@news.eternal-september.org>, david- > tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid says... >> >> It surprises me that, with FreeBSD being suggested as a good system >> for servers, there isn't more ready-made SNMP about. >> > > That's 'cos it's a bit of a nightmare to setup and configure for the non > BSD types! I'm in the middle of doing one now (to the instructions at: > http://blog.doylenet.net/?p=145)
Those look like instructions on how to wire up a GPS receiver with FreeBSD (plus bash and vim :), and less detailed about installing and using FreeBSD itself. > It took a couple of days just to get FreeBSD V8.0 installed correctly in > the first place. One false move (hair trigger enter key) and it's > "start over" time. (OK, so there are probably ways to backtrack, but > like many things, it's just not documented.) Start with the fine manual here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ > It does not appear dificult technicaly, and not that many steps to > complete, but it takes an age for the system to search for, download the > needed source modules, compile and build the needed app's etc. None of this should be needed, since ntpd comes with the base system-- although learning up to update the system and install additional software is useful. You might need to recompile the kernel alone to enable PPS_SYNC, perhaps. > And as for that editor 'vim' If you thought Notepad was bad...... > Some documentation as to how to use that is sorely needed! It's about > as counter intuitive as you can get, my opinion at least. There has to > be an easier to use text file editor that can be used? ee? pico? emacs? > Cheers. I'd continue work on my FreeBSD box, I'm at the point of > attempting to enable PPS support in the kernel, but (a) I want to find > out how to make a recovery disk first, in case if it all goes greasy > side up, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-trouble.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backup-basics.html Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions