FreeBSD is a weird OS, I'll give you that. I still can't get my Nvidia TNT2 video card working, but my Lexar Jumpdrive is working fine. I came across this script on the net and modified it to mnt the USB memory key to the /mnt/lexar directory.
#!/usr/bin/perl -wuse strict;
# If no arguments are given, print a brief help message
if (!defined($ARGV[0]))
{
print "\n";
print "Help:\n";
print "Lexar Jumpdrive mounting script\n";
print "\n";
print "You must provide one of the following arguments:\n";
print "m Mounts the Jumpdrive.\n";
print "u UnMounts the Jumpdrive.\n";
print "\n";
print "Example: lexar m\n";
print "\n";
}# m mounts the jumpdrive
elsif ($ARGV[0] eq "m")
{
# mounting the jumpdrive at /mnt/lexar
# this can be set to whatever you like
system "/sbin/mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /mnt/lexar";
print "Jumpdrive mounted at /mnt/lexar.\n";
}elsif ($ARGV[0] eq "u")
{
# umounts the jumpdrive
system "/sbin/umount /mnt/lexar";
print "Jumpdrive unmounted.\n";
}
This does a great job of mounting the drive. Adding:
alias lexar perl /usr/local/scripts/lexar(alter this to point to whatever path your scripts are at) to your .cshrc file will allow for quick and easy access to your Lexar Jump Drive in FreeBSD.
After a few hours of playing around, I finally have a DynDNS compatible IP checker up and running. This means I can log in to my FreeBSD box via ssh/sftp from anywhere with a net connection regardless of whatever crappy ip Bell Sympatico assigns me.
Basically the steps involved were:
1. Download nifty python script.
2. Ensure that python was running on my system with "pkg_info" - it was
3. Edit ls_dyndns.py in the following manner: change top line to indicate my local python path; change variables to specific settings for my router/DynDNS account.
4. Edit /etc/crontab by adding the following line:
paths= (include link to local python path, in my case /usr/local/bin)
#ipchecker for dyndns.org
01 * * * * root python /usr/local/ls_dyndns.py
This will run the script once an hour and update my router's IP with DynDNS only if necessary.
Phew! N00b help was found here.
