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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!fnnews.fnal.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!ferrari.mst6.lanl.gov!tesuque.cs.sandia.gov!lynx.unm.edu!bubba.NMSU.Edu!ilogan From: ilogan@nmsu.edu (Ian Warren Logan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Netscape under 2.0.5? Date: 22 Jul 1995 20:01:15 GMT Organization: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM Lines: 12 Message-ID: <3urleb$ntv@bubba.NMSU.Edu> References: <steve.805757720@ichips.intel.com> <3u7qu9$1a9@owl.und.ac.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: verdi.nmsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Tony Harverson (harverso@kestrel.ugrd.und.ac.za) wrote: : : I'm trying to get Netscape 1.1N to work under FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE, using : : the BSDI port of Netscape. This should, as far as I know, work in theory. : : The problem I see is that when Netscape starts up, it says "uname() failed" : : and complains about not knowing what the machine name is it's running on. : : I compiled up a quick C program to call uname(3) and it works fine. Anyone : : else try to do this? Did this used to work under 2.0 and not 2.0.5? : : Patches? Suggestions? Its not just a FreeBSD problem I have a copy of Netscape 1.1N running on BSD/OS 2.0 and it reports a uname(3) failure as well. Ian