From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 28 05:01:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA29018 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 28 May 1998 05:01:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from heron.doc.ic.ac.uk (ek38O9MleacHQm6xH7UehL8S88D4FZOA@heron.doc.ic.ac.uk [146.169.46.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA28972 for ; Thu, 28 May 1998 05:01:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk) Received: from oak66.doc.ic.ac.uk [146.169.33.66] ([ZITUN/mjXYTqdxo6w86yyLlG0Cz7h/GZ]) by heron.doc.ic.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 1.62 #3) id 0yf1Mb-0006sb-00; Thu, 28 May 1998 13:00:53 +0100 Received: from njs3 by oak66.doc.ic.ac.uk with local (Exim 1.62 #3) id 0yf1Ma-0001fz-00; Thu, 28 May 1998 13:00:52 +0100 From: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart) Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 13:00:52 +0100 In-Reply-To: "Daniel O'Connor" "Star Office Installation" (May 28, 11:20am) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: "Daniel O'Connor" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Star Office Installation Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On May 28, 11:20am, "Daniel O'Connor" wrote: } Subject: Star Office Installation > Hi, > I have been trying to install Star Office 4, but for some weird reason the > installation binary tries to open /proc//cmdline which doesn't exist in > our version of /proc :( > > Has anyone got this to install, or do I have to hack procfs myself? maybe you can hexedit the binary so that it tries to open /p/pid/cmdline instead. of course this necessitates generating a load of /p/2323/cmdline /p/2324/cmdline of course. perhaps you can also change the binary so it calls getppid instead or perhaps just get it to use a constant pid by replacing the insns which call getpid with ones that movl $0, %eax niall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message