From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 22 12:22:24 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id MAA11839 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 12:22:24 -0700 Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (sri.MT.net [204.94.231.129]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA11831 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 12:22:21 -0700 Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA28603; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 13:24:14 -0600 Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 13:24:14 -0600 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199508221924.NAA28603@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: jeffa@sybase.com (Jeff Anuszczyk) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Netscape... V2.0.5-RELEASE... uname() doesn't seem to work... In-Reply-To: <9508221454.AA09055@teak.sybgate.sybase.com> References: <9508221454.AA09055@teak.sybgate.sybase.com> Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I followed the directions that I found in the mail archives with > respect to setting up Netscape. I'm pretty darn sure I have everything > setup okay. However, when I start up Netscape the following error > is displayed and Netscape "hangs" doing nothing. > > uname() doesn't seem to work. Can't figure out what type of system > this is. Keep waiting. It'll show up sooner or later. This is normal behavior since Netscape relied on specific behavior of the uname call, which changed in all of the BSD variants, including BSDI. Nate