From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 18 19:46:50 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id TAA08847 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 19:46:50 -0700 Received: from lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw (lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw [140.109.7.3]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id TAA08838 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 19:46:39 -0700 Message-Id: <199508190246.TAA08838@freefall.FreeBSD.org> Received: by lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw (1.37.109.4/16.2) id AA16763; Sat, 19 Aug 95 10:33:50 +0800 From: Yen-Wei Liu Subject: Re: Netscape -vs- uname() To: lashley@netcom.com Date: Sat, 19 Aug 95 10:33:50 EAT Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9508181534.AA29959@asimov.volant.org>; from "patl@asimov.volant.org" at Aug 18, 95 8:34 am Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] 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 > > I suspect that both problems are caused by static linking to > a bad/incompatible libraries... > Just a wild guess : uname on FreeBSD 2.0[5]R has some bugs. Struct utsname would be corrupted after calling uname(). It was fixed within last month. It sounds like why Netscape doesn't work. -- Yen-Wei Liu Internet e-mail address:ywliu@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw ywliu@gate.sinica.edu.tw FAX: +886-2-783-6444