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From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: What is ld.so?
Date: 28 Mar 1994 18:33:51 +0200
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In article <1994Mar27.234719.12349@umr.edu>, rbirling@ee.umr.edu (Robert Henry Birlingmair) writes:
|> I just installed the FreeBSD 2.1 BETA binaries from ftp.cdrom.com.
|> When I try to run several programs, I get "No ld.so".  What does this
|> mean and how do I fix it?  Thanks.

I suspect you mean 1.2b, not 2.1b.

Anyway - check the permissions on any reasonable directories.
A couple of them were mode 700 owner root, and (e.g.) the "man" program is
suid bin, so it cannot access the shared libs.

-Bernard