From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 20 06:45:59 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA20724 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 06:45:59 -0700 Received: from whisker.internet-eireann.ie (whisker.internet-eireann.ie [194.9.34.204]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA20716 ; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 06:45:52 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by whisker.internet-eireann.ie (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA13607; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 14:45:51 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: whisker.internet-eireann.ie: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: kim culhan cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: anyone care to investigate this? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 Jun 1995 09:10:28 EDT." Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 14:45:51 +0100 Message-ID: <13605.803655951@whisker.internet-eireann.ie> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Tue, 20 Jun 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > In comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x Christoph Weber-Fahr wrote: > > > P.S. to the FreeBSD side - why does Netscape give an error message about > > > a failed uname() call on startup, when running on 2.0R ? > > > > It's a bug in the implementation of the uname() library routine, or somethi ng > > related to it. I don't know exactly what the problem is on FreeBSD, but th e > > same problem existed on BSDI, until they fixed it. The Netscape FAQ says: > > FWIW, on 2.0.5 -current I see no errors returned on Netscape startup. jkh@whisker-> uname -a FreeBSD whisker.internet-eireann.ie 2.0.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE #0: Sat Jun 17 19:11:37 BST 1995 jkh@whisker.internet-eireann.ie:/usr/src/sys/compile/WHISKER i386 jkh@whisker-> netscape netscape: uname() failed; can't tell what system we're running on Perhaps you're not using Netscape 1.1R? I wouldn't have forwarded this if I hadn't also seen it myself.. :-) Jordan