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From: phillip@mirriwinni.cse.rmit.edu.au (Phillip Musumeci)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux netscape under FreeBSD
Date: 23 Feb 1996 13:45:20 GMT
Organization: Computer Systems Engineering Department, RMIT Australia
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In-reply-to: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk's message of Wed, 21 Feb 1996 16:16:38
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>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> writes:
Richard> I'd like to run the Linux version of netscape because the BSD
Richard> version doesn't support Java. This works fine except that it
Richard> doesn't like the format of the /etc/hosts.conf file. Is there
Richard> a workaround for this?
Richard> (I suppose one could create a complete chroot()ed Linux
Richard> environment with union-mouted filesystems, but that seems a
Richard> little excessive.)
Perhaps a chroot-ed approach would be OK regards linux philosophy. In any
case, here is:
part 1 --- a script that might be useful for running linux-netscape
part 2 --- sample file /usr/local/lib/netscape/host.conf
Try to ignore the emulator messages in the console about a missing linux
logging routine :-)
phillip
===========================================================================
#!/bin/sh
# 1) Define a few environment variables for netscape/linux
# 2) Use a linux style host.conf file
#
# phillip@rmit.edu.au 5-jan-1996
# 1 #######################################################################
# use the supplied XKeysymDB
XKEYSYMDB=/usr/local/lib/netscape/XKeysymDB
export XKEYSYMDB
# note - /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/nls is a soft link to supplied nls
XNLSPATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/nls
export XNLSPATH
XAPPLRESDIR=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
export XAPPLRESDIR
# 2 #######################################################################
# From: Robert Sanders <rsanders@mindspring.com>, setup a local host.conf
RESOLV_HOST_CONF=/usr/local/lib/netscape/host.conf
export RESOLV_HOST_CONF
###########################################################################
exec /usr/local/lib/netscape/netscape $*
===========================================================================
order hosts,bind
multi on
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