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Centova Cast on FreeBSD
Feb 09, 2008 02:35 PM
Question:
Does Centova Cast work with FreeBSD?
Answer:
While Centova Cast is not "officially" supported under FreeBSD, we have a number of users who have reported success in doing so, and we have made a number of changes for better compatibility with FreeBSD based on their recommendations.The following information may be of use to you when installing and using Centova Cast under FreeBSD.
Pre-installation
Centova Cast's installation script requires bash. As such, you'll need to install bash, then edit Centova Cast's install.sh script and change the first line from:
#!/bin/sh
...to:
#!/usr/local/bin/bash
If bash is installed in a different location on your machine, please adjust the path appropriately.
Post-installation
By default, Centova Cast depends on the /proc filesystem, which is not always present (and, to the best of our knowledge, is not present by default) under FreeBSD. There are two ways to correct this:
Option 1: The most reliable approach to resolving this is to have your system mount the /proc filesystem automatically each time the machine boots. This can be accomplished by running the following commands:
mkdir /proc
echo "procfs /proc procfs rw 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
mount /proc
Once you've done this once, /proc will always be mounted automatically at boot time.
Option 2: Alternatively, if you have specific objections to using the /proc filesystem (as some administrators do), you can add the following to /home/centovacast/system/config.php instead:
define('PORTABLE',true);
Note that this mode is less-tested, however, and thus is not necessarily recommended. Enabling the /proc filesystem provides an environment very similar to Linux, which is very well tested with Centova Cast and is less likely to contain undiscovered bugs.
mkdir /proc
echo "procfs /proc procfs rw 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
mount /proc
Once you've done this once, /proc will always be mounted automatically at boot time.
Option 2: Alternatively, if you have specific objections to using the /proc filesystem (as some administrators do), you can add the following to /home/centovacast/system/config.php instead:
define('PORTABLE',true);
Note that this mode is less-tested, however, and thus is not necessarily recommended. Enabling the /proc filesystem provides an environment very similar to Linux, which is very well tested with Centova Cast and is less likely to contain undiscovered bugs.
Aside from the issues above, our clients have reported that Centova Cast works out-of-the-box under FreeBSD with no further changes.