From owner-freebsd-database Fri Dec 18 08:09:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA24966 for freebsd-database-outgoing; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 08:09:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [212.242.42.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA24961 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 08:09:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id RAA56053; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 17:09:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Søren Schmidt Message-Id: <199812181609.RAA56053@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Oracle for Linux on FreeBSD [was: Re: Linux Threads patches available] In-Reply-To: <367A745A.7BA34417@scc.nl> from Marcel Moolenaar at "Dec 18, 1998 4:27:22 pm" To: marcel@scc.nl (Marcel Moolenaar) Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 17:09:12 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk It seems Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > The hack merely avoids the use of unix_get_groups(), which crashes the > install process just before the point when it should install the RDBMS. The > hack just creates a list in which "dba" is the sole group of which the oracle > user is a member. Funny enough, when I got your mail, I'm just sitting here looking at the getgroups stuff in the emulator :) > The install program still fails to relink any binaries when you use the > linux_lib and linux_devel ports. I removed those ports and installed the > following Redhat packages (not all packages are important, especially tcl and > tk): That was to be expected I guess.... > PS: I've a hacked version of kdump which uses the Linux syscall tables. If > you're (or anybody else, for that matter) interested, I can send it to the > mailinglist. It's a hack. Nothing fancy. It's just that it prevents you (or > others) for doing it again... Have you looked at linux_kdump in the ports collection, it seems you've done what others did to prevent that :) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@freebsd.org) FreeBSD Core Team member To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message