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<main> <article class="userContent"> <h2 data-id="summary"><strong>SUMMARY</strong></h2> <p>FreeBSD ReadMe. This information below was previously true, but has been superseded by KB Unitrends Operating System End of Life Notification. It is being kept for legacy information only.</p> <h2 data-id="issue"><strong>ISSUE</strong></h2> <p></p> <p>UPDATE: As of April 2nd 2019, FreeBSD has been added to our <a rel="nofollow" href="/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&target=https%3A%2F%2Funitrends-support.zendesk.com%2Fhc%2Fen-us%2Farticles%2F360013188337%3Fpopup%3Dfalse%26navBack%3DH4sIAAAAAAAAAIuuVipWslLyzssvz0lNSU_1yM9NVdJRygaKFSSmp4ZkluSA-KVAvn58aaZ-NkyhPpCDosu-ODWxKDnD1q0oNdUp2EWpNhYAzrfrOlwAAAA">Unitrends Operating System End of Life Notification</a>.</p> <h2 data-id="resolution"><strong>RESOLUTION</strong></h2> <p>This information below was previously true, but has been superseded by KB <a rel="nofollow" href="/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&target=https%3A%2F%2Funitrends-support.zendesk.com%2Fhc%2Fen-us%2Farticles%2F360013188337">Unitrends Operating System End of Life Notification</a>. It is being kept for legacy information only.</p> <h2 data-id="cause"><strong>CAUSE</strong></h2> <p>As of April 2nd 2019, FreeBSD has been added to our <a rel="nofollow" href="/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&target=https%3A%2F%2Funitrends-support.zendesk.com%2Fhc%2Fen-us%2Farticles%2F360013188337%3Fpopup%3Dfalse%26navBack%3DH4sIAAAAAAAAAIuuVipWslLyzssvz0lNSU_1yM9NVdJRygaKFSSmp4ZkluSA-KVAvn58aaZ-NkyhPpCDosu-ODWxKDnD1q0oNdUp2EWpNhYAzrfrOlwAAAA">Unitrends Operating System End of Life Notification</a>.</p> <h2 data-id="notes"><strong>NOTES</strong></h2> <p></p> <p>This information below was previously true, but has been superseded by KB 6643 <a rel="nofollow" href="/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&target=https%3A%2F%2Funitrends-support.zendesk.com%2Fhc%2Fen-us%2Farticles%2F360013188337%3Fpopup%3Dfalse%26navBack%3DH4sIAAAAAAAAAIuuVipWslLyzssvz0lNSU_1yM9NVdJRygaKFSSmp4ZkluSA-KVAvn58aaZ-NkyhPpCDosu-ODWxKDnD1tDEwFypNhYAdPKjO1kAAAA">Unitrends Operating System End of Life Notification</a>.<br> </p> <p><b>The information below is legacy information only.</b></p> <p><br><br><br><b>Purpose</b></p> <h3 data-id="this-article-is-to-provide-the-readme-documentation-included-with-the-freebsd-unitrends-agent">This article is to provide the README documentation included with the FreeBSD Unitrends agent.</h3> <h3 data-id="resolution-1">Resolution</h3> <br>This is the README file The Backup Professional<br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br> *** IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR FreeBSD 4.7 and 6.1 USERS ***<br><br>a) FreeBSD 4.7 needs some extra libraries on your machine.<br>It is sets of libraries compat3x and compat4x<br><br>Without those libraries you will have troubles with installation and usage the software. Before the installation please<br>perform those manual operations.<br><br>1. Edit the file /etc/make.conf and add folowing strings there:<br><br>COMPAT3X=yes<br>COMPAT4X=yes<br><br>If file /etc/make.conf does not exist on your system, create it.<br><br>2. Then as root:<br> cd /usr/src/lib/compat<br> make obj<br> make<br> make install<br> <br><br>If you don't have /usr/src/lib/compat directory on your machine:<br><br>1. Download extra libraries from FreeBSD FTP site:<br><br><a href="/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&target=ftp%3A%2F%2Fftp.freebsd.com%2Fpub%2FFreeBSD%2Freleases%2Fi386%2F4.7-RELEASE%2Fpackages%2Fmisc%2Fcompat3x-i386-4.4.20020925.tgz">ftp://ftp.freebsd.com/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.7-RELEASE/packages/misc/compat3x-i386-4.4.20020925.tgz</a><br><a href="/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&target=ftp%3A%2F%2Fftp.freebsd.com%2Fpub%2FFreeBSD%2Freleases%2Fi386%2F4.7-RELEASE%2Fpackages%2Fmisc%2Fcompat4x-i386-4.6.2.tgz">ftp://ftp.freebsd.com/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.7-RELEASE/packages/misc/compat4x-i386-4.6.2.tgz</a> <br><br> or from Unitrends FTP site:<br><br><a href="/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&target=ftp%3A%2F%2F209.92.4.30%2Fbp%2Fpatches%2Fcompat3x-i386-4.4.20020925.tgz">ftp://209.92.4.30/bp/patches/compat3x-i386-4.4.20020925.tgz</a><br><a href="/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&target=ftp%3A%2F%2F209.92.4.30%2Fbp%2Fpatches%2Fcompat4x-i386-4.6.2.tgz">ftp://209.92.4.30/bp/patches/compat4x-i386-4.6.2.tgz</a><br><br>2. su root<br> umask 022<br> pkg_add compat3x-i386-4.4.20020925.tgz<br> pkg_add compat4x-i386-4.6.2.tgz<br> Rename /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*.sh.sample to *.sh<br> sync<br> Reboot the system. <br><br>b) FreeBSD 6.1 needs some extra libraries on your machine.<br>It is sets of libraries compat4x and compat5x <br>Without those libraries you will have troubles with installation and usage the software. Before the installation please<br>perform those manual<br>operations. <br><br>1) Make sure that your machine has internet access.<br><br>2) As root:<br># pkg_add -r compat4x-i386<br># pkg_add -r compat5x-i386<br><br>Or istead of pkg_adds yo can do following.<br># cd /usr/ports/misc/compat4x<br># make; make install<br># cd /usr/ports/misc/compat5x<br># make; make install<br><br><br>3) Edit the file /etc/rc.conf and add folowing strings there:<br>compat4x_enable=yes<br>compat5x_enable=yes<br><br>4) Reboot your system.<br><br>5) Change directory to /usr/local/lib/compat then run following commands:<br># ln -s libc.so.4 libc.so.3<br># ln -s libxpg4.so.3 libxpg4.so.2 </article> </main>