From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 26 18:30:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA16715 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 18:30:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA16710 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 18:30:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA28573; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 18:25:02 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604270125.SAA28573@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: bounce buffers To: jimd@mistery.mcafee.com (Jim Dennis) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 18:25:02 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, mrl@teleport.com, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199604270240.TAA10582@mistery.mcafee.com> from "Jim Dennis" at Apr 26, 96 07:40:11 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > We have recently shipped a couple of ports of our > basic VirusScan product to Linux and to Solaris and SunOS. > Our programming team expects the port to FreeBSD/NetBSD > to be a simple recompile. > > Like all of McAfee's software products evaluation copies > of uvscan are available from our ftp sites > > ftp://ftp.mcafee.com/pub/antivirus/vlnx100e.taz > > (for the Linux version: vsun100e.taz for SunOS and vsol100e.taz > for Solaris). > > Actually I should try it on my FreeBSD servers under > the new Linux binary compatibility. Is there anything > special I need to do to run a Linux a.out or ELF binary > under FreeBSD? Under -current, you need to install the Linux compatability package to get the shared libraries; for older FreeBSD code, a kernel recompile is required as well, to Linux compatability. The new code will run ELF or a.out binaries; the old code will only run a.out. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.