From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 29 22:14:05 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id WAA02768 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 22:14:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from obie.softweyr.com (slc5.modem.xmission.com [204.228.136.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id WAA02756 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 22:14:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id XAA10257; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 23:17:38 -0700 (MST) Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 23:17:38 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199612300617.XAA10257@obie.softweyr.com> From: Wes Peters To: Sean Batson CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: [Fwd: IPCS Utility] In-Reply-To: <32C7103A.446B9B3D@sunbeach.net> References: <32C7103A.446B9B3D@sunbeach.net> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Sean Batson writes: > On executing the IPCS command the results didn't display any > active semospheres. Would this be internal to the OS or the > IPCS utility. You have to configure your kernel to include SYSV Semaphores, as I said before. cd to /usr/src/sys/i386/conf and grep for SYSV in the LINT config file. Add these lines to your config file, configure and make a new kernel, and reboot. Now, use a program that creates semaphores, then ipcs -s. > What's the latest with FreeBSD equivalent of AIX's SMIT interface? > Give me some specs and I think I can come up with an equivalent. > (roughly 6 to 9 months). FreeBSD has no equivalent of the "stupid piece of SMIT." I am not a fan of SMIT, it has one of the most annoying user interfaces I've ever seen. To learn more about system administration on a BSD system, see the Nemeth, Seebas et. al. book and the FreeBSD man pages on sysctl. A *good*, X-based system administration tool would be nice to have. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com