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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!hookup!news.Direct.CA!news3.insinc.net!news.bc.net!news.mindlink.net!vanbc.wimsey.com!fonorola!uniserve1!usenet From: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Netscape under 2.0.5? Date: 26 Jul 1995 06:14:04 GMT Organization: UNIServe Online Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3v4mfc$ltr@enigma.uniserve.com> References: <steve.805757720@ichips.intel.com> <3u7qu9$1a9@owl.und.ac.za> <3urleb$ntv@bubba.NMSU.Edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc.sdf.com Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.2 In article <3urleb$ntv@bubba.NMSU.Edu>, ilogan@nmsu.edu says... > >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. NetBSD 1.0 has the same problem. Would seem that it is a Netscape bug. Tom