Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 07:23:14 -0400 From: "Jim Stapleton" <stapleton.41@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: smoke and mirrors - any way to trick an app into thinking I'm running linux? Message-ID: <80f4f2b20606190423w2385da69o8984a50c47a8162c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44967ABE.3030503@dial.pipex.com> 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>
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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. -Jim Stapleton On 6/19/06, Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> wrote: > Jim Stapleton wrote: > > > OK, that was easier than expected. These blobs appeared around > > everything "linux", but don't look horribly useful. I'll check later > > to see if I can find anything else. is there anything I should be > > looking for aside from linux? > > What you want to find is the error message you got about "Only runs on > Linux". I was assuming this is just a single binary, but if there is > lots of stuff including sh scripts and stuff then a grep for some part > of the string in all the files might point you in the right direction. > I think Linux was all caps so a case-sensitive grep (i.e. not -i) for > Linux should do the trick. If in doubt try to find the earliest word in > the error string since ktrace will chop off long strings. (Sorry, lost > your original post already and can't exactly remember the string). > > > I really want to proove to these people that the port will not be a > > $60k effor, more like a $20 effort. > > Better not tell you my hourly rate then ;-) > > --Alex > > > >
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