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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!realtime.net!news.mindspring.com!usenet From: Robert Sanders <rsanders@mindspring.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problems running Linux Netscape 2.0b3 binary under FBSD 2.1R Date: 14 Dec 1995 23:33:54 -0500 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc. Lines: 23 Sender: rsanders@interbev.mindspring.com Message-ID: <873fan0wul.fsf@interbev.mindspring.com> References: <4ao7p2$blv@Mars.mcs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: interbev.mindspring.com In-reply-to: mikebo@MCS.COM's message of 13 Dec 1995 22:04:50 -0600 X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.0.10 On 13 Dec 1995 22:04:50 -0600, mikebo@MCS.COM (Michael Borowiec) said: > I downloaded the Linux Netscape 2.0b3 package and got the binary to run, > alright... But I get the following messages during startup, and it can't > resolve any hostnames whatever: The Linux and FreeBSD host.conf files aren't compatible. You'll have to create a separate one for Linux binaries. Here's what I have in my /compat/linux/etc/host.conf: order hosts,bind multi on The resolver routines in the Linux C library will use the host.conf specified in the RESOLV_HOST_CONF environment variable. So just use a shell script like this to point them at the Linux-compatible one: #!/bin/sh RESOLV_HOST_CONF=/compat/linux/etc/host.conf export RESOLV_HOST_CONF netscape -- Robert