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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
Date: 30 Jan 2005 16:48:39 -0500
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Subject: Re: enable linux compatibility
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FreeBsdBeni <freebsdbeni@spymac.com> writes:

> On Saturday 29 January 2005 15:49, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> > Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> writes:
> > > On 29 Jan Thomas Foster wrote:
> > > > Try downloading a linux binary or installing a linux based application
> > > > from ports.. if you do not get any elf binary errors then yo umost
> > > > likely have the linux compatibility enabled correctly.  The only other
> > > > thing to watch for are any programs that might require linprocfs
> > >
> 
> Don't you have to add a line to your /etc/fstab as well to enable/use the 
> linprocfs ?

Only if you need it.  Most programs I've used under FreeBSD's Linux
emulation do *not* access procfs.  Building the Linux JDK is the only
time I ever needed it, and once I've got the native JDK built, I can
umount the procfs again.