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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SCO emul and libsocksys Date: 13 May 1996 17:56:15 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 56 Message-ID: <4n7t3v$qha@helena.MT.net> References: <4mnn9v$67t@service2.uky.edu> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net [ Emailed as well ] In article <4mnn9v$67t@service2.uky.edu>, John Soward <soward@neworder.cc.uky.edu> wrote: > >I searched through the old articles and found a lot of questions about this >but no definative answers. I'm trying to run an SCO binary under the >2.2-950501 SNAP, it runs, but when it tries to make a network connection I get >something like this: > >demo29# ./client >User> connect convex.uky.edu >libsocket: open(/dev/socksys) failure: No such device or address >libsocket: open(/dev/socksys) failure: No such device or address >libsocket: open(/dev/socksys) failure: No such device or address >libsocket: open(/dev/socksys) failure: No such device or address > >Now, I've made /dev/socksys and I have the ibcs stuff loaded...In 2.1 there >was some socksys stuff in /usr/src/lkm/socksys, this doesn't seem to be there >in 2.2, so I figure it's rolled into the ibcs stuff, but... Here's what you should have: root# cd /compat/ibcs2/dev root# ls -lag total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Apr 26 13:51 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 512 May 1 13:06 .. lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9 Apr 26 13:51 X0R -> /dev/null lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9 Apr 26 13:51 nfsd -> /dev/null lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9 Apr 26 13:51 null -> /dev/null lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9 Apr 26 13:51 socksys -> /dev/null crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 41, 1 Apr 26 13:50 spx root# Also, you may want to do the following as well. root# cd /compat/ibcs2/bin root# ls -alag uname -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 May 1 13:05 uname root# cat uname #!/bin/sh hostname -s root# cd /compat/ibcs2/usr/bin root# ls -alag uname lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 15 May 1 13:06 uname -> ../../bin/uname root# Hope this helps. Nate -- nate@sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.mt.sri.com | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. home #: (406) 443-7063 | A fly pole and a 4x4 Chevy truck = Heaven on Earth