From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 19 12:45:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39BC616A47A for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:45:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B920743D6D for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:45:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [172.23.170.146] (helo=anti-virus03-09) by smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FsJ8b-0002mR-3A; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:45:53 +0100 Received: from [82.41.34.175] (helo=[192.168.0.2]) by asmtp-out6.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FsJ8a-0007Vn-39; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:45:52 +0100 Message-ID: <44969C7F.1030307@dial.pipex.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:45:51 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060515 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Stapleton References: <80f4f2b20606181355x3155c33dp1e498dea663000c5@mail.gmail.com> <4495C1DF.9040506@dial.pipex.com> <80f4f2b20606181428o270e0dedl885bf38540723b15@mail.gmail.com> <449663A8.5070203@dial.pipex.com> <80f4f2b20606190255g6e742279r18fed593af119106@mail.gmail.com> <44967ABE.3030503@dial.pipex.com> <80f4f2b20606190423w2385da69o8984a50c47a8162c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20606190423w2385da69o8984a50c47a8162c@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: smoke and mirrors - any way to trick an app into thinking I'm running linux? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:45:54 -0000 Jim Stapleton wrote: > found it; uname -a, I fixed that line, now I just need to figure out > how to get the appropriate libs (glibc) into my compat dir... it isn't > in any of the linux compat ports. Good stuff. The glibc you have might just do fine. Just make a symlink from the one you want to the one you have and try! There's an FC4 linux in the ports, IIRC which is as recent as any Linux I have to administer; I have trouble believing you'd need a newer one otherwise the app won't even run on most Linux machines :-) Or maybe your app has an RPM for an older linux you could try. --Alex