From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 18 08:38:39 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id IAA06400 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 08:38:39 -0700 Received: from lashley.slip.netcom.com (lashley.slip.netcom.com [192.187.134.225]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA05970 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 08:36:30 -0700 From: patl@asimov.volant.org Received: from asimov.volant.org (asimov.volant.org [192.0.2.1]) by lashley.slip.netcom.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA17340 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 08:33:55 -0700 Received: by asimov.volant.org (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA29959; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 08:34:28 -0700 Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 08:34:28 -0700 Message-Id: <9508181534.AA29959@asimov.volant.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Netscape -vs- uname() Reply-To: lashley@netcom.com X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I'm running the BSDi version of Netscape 1.1 on FreeBSD 2.0.5. It seems to be working fine, but when started, it reports: netscape: uname() failed; can't tell what system we're running on This doesn't appear to be much of a problem, but I have been denied access to some Web sites that I could see when using Netscape 1.1 from a SPARCstation; and was wondering if the uname() problem might be causing some authentication error. Which leads to the question: Is there a work-around for the uname() problem? My only other problem with NetScape is related to color usage when displaying remotely on my SPARCstation. The SPARCstation has a 24bit color framebuffer, and the netscape image colors are badly messed up unless I force it to use a PseudoColor visual. I suspect that both problems are caused by static linking to a bad/incompatible libraries... -Pat