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From: swallace@newport.ece.uci.edu (Steven Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: iBCS package for FreeBSD ?
Date: 9 Apr 1996 18:26:59 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine
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In article <aak2.829030698@Ra.MsState.Edu>,
Atif Ahmad Khan <aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu> wrote:
>
>I need to run some Arcada agents for SCO on my FreeBSD
>machine so that the Arcada backup software on NT can see
>the FreeBSD machine and be able to back it up.  I remember
>seeing an iBCS package for Linux that would let me run SCO
>and some other binaries under Linux.
>
>Is there such a thing under FreeBSD ? 
>

Yep, 2.1R has a LKM (loadable kernel module) that works pretty well.
With 2.1R make sure you define COMAT_IBCS2 when building your kernel.

What works best is from the latest snapshot of 2.2.  You don't need
to worry abou defining COMPAT_IBCS2 when building the kernel
(the generic kernel will work fine), but you do need to rebuild the lkm
by applying one imporant patch:  change 0 to sendsig in line 53 of
ibcs2_sysvec.c.

Steven Wallace