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From: pius@ienet.com
Subject: CyberCash 2.1 dies on SIGSYS / BSDI binary compatibility
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 14:09:41 -0800
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I noticed that a similar question was asked recently,
but I never saw a response.

I tried installing the CyberCash 2.1 admin and credit servers on
my FreeBSD 2.2-961006-SNAP machine and some of the CyberCash binaries
I tried running die on a SIGSYS signal (bad system call).

I can start and stop the admin server, but when starting the credit
server, I get "***!!! Signal SIGSYS caught, Quitting !!!***" and when
stopping the credit server I get "Bad system call - core dumped".

I'm not sure if this helps, but the file(1) output for the affected
binaries is: "BSD/386 demand paged (first page unmapped) pure ex"

The installation notes say that one needs BSDI version 2.0.1 or 2.1
to run the CyberCash CashRegister 2.1.

So my question is: Is FreeBSD 2.2 or 3.0-current fully binary compatible
with BSDI 2.0.1 and/or 2.1?

I'm running the October 6th snapshot (it's the one that came out a few
days before the "fixed" October 10th snapshot). I've upgraded a few
things like rtld, sendmail, etc. Should I upgrade (the kernel) to a
more recent 3.0-current or 2.2-GAMMA? Or has nothing changed with
regard to BSDI compatibility since October?

Thanks,
Pius

P.S. My machine's got a Pentium 133, 32MB RAM, 128MB swap. Is more
information needed?