From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Feb 1 11:45:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA06066 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 11:45:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from starfire.mn.org (root@starfire.skypoint.net [199.86.32.187]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA06057 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 11:45:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (from john@localhost) by starfire.mn.org (8.8.4/1.1) id NAA07819; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 13:44:46 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 13:44:46 -0600 From: john@dexter.starfire.mn.org (John Lind) To: rif@ns.kconline.com (Jim Riffle) Cc: danny@panda.hilink.com.au (Daniel O'Callaghan), isp@FreeBSD.ORG, ewssupport@architext.com Subject: Re: Architext Excite on FreeBSD? References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.53 Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: ; from Jim Riffle on Feb 1, 1997 11:04:09 -0500 Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Sat, 1 Feb 1997, John Lind wrote: > > Daniel O'Callaghan writes: > > > On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, John Lind wrote: > > > > SkyPoint just tried to install Architext Excite and the BSDI binaries > > > > won't run, at least on FreeBSD 2.1.0-R(CD). Is there a solution > > > > for this? > > > > > > Yes. Run 2.1.5 or higher. Works fine, I believe. > > > > Hmmm. This is not my experience. It instantly coredumps on 2.1.0-R(CD), > > 2.1.5, and 3.0-BETA. > > > > Am I doing something wrong? > > I have found that it was the perl binary that was causing core dumps when > I installed it on a 2.1.5 machine. If you untar the file, replace the > perl program with one from FreeBSD, re-tar it, it should work fine. I > have had it running this way on a 2.1.5 box and a 2.2-Beta box. Thanks to all of you for your attention and responses! Oh, dear. I had tried the perl substitution on the 2.1.0-R box, and that didn't work -- the Excite engines still bombed (even though the netscape I use on the 2.1.0-R boxes is BSDI) so after that, I used the perl as a "litmus test" for functionality. It is now clear that this was wrong. The Excite engines *DO* run on 2.1.5 (and presumably later) even though the perl packaged with it does not. I was going to try it on my 3.0-BETA system, but it appears I am have NFS problems with that system (old, slow 8-bit ethernet card from the salvage heap)... John Lind, Starfire Consulting Services E-mail: john@starfire.MN.ORG USnail: PO Box 17247, Mpls MN 55417