From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 22 13:44: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.screaming.net (smtp.screaming.net [212.49.224.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F4FD37C211 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:43:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dozprompt@onsea.com) Received: from merlin.onsea.com (dyn147-ras25.froglike.co.uk [212.49.248.147]) by smtp.screaming.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA10597; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 21:44:42 GMT Received: from localhost (dozprompt@localhost) by merlin.onsea.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA01816; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 21:43:53 GMT (envelope-from dozprompt@onsea.com) X-Authentication-Warning: merlin.onsea.com: dozprompt owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 21:43:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Cliff Rowley To: j mckitrick Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is BSD slower? In-Reply-To: <20000322184547.A70028@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I dont know the ins and outs of either the hardware, or the programs you've mentioned, but I can clear a couple of things up ;) > I'm trying to explain to a pal who tried BSD recently why this might > be. He also had problems with running netscape w/o a.out X binaries > (probably because he didn't use the port, right?) afaik Netscape is aout anyway, so you need the libraries. > And he also said he > had to reboot to use newly installed libraries, that ldconfig did not > work. He's an advanced Unix/Linux user, so i don't know what i could > do to help him If he doesnt know how to use ldconfig, he cant be that advanced. The problem was most likely that the either the aout directories were not in his ldconfig path, or that he failed to specifiy aout when using ldconfig. i.e. ldconfig -aout -R, perhaps used with -m and specifying the aout directories. If he'd have read the ldconfig man page, he would have known this ;) I'm not an advanced user by any means, I've only been using any kind of UNIX for just under a year now, and I had no problem installing netscape and using the aout libraries... I'm not trying to insult his knowledge you understand, just giving you something to tell him, so he doesnt think it's FreeBSD's fault he couldnt set up netscape... Cliff Rowley - while (!asleep) { code(); } To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message