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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!primus.ac.net!news.serv.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!zpr.uni-koeln.de!se From: se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux netscape under FreeBSD Date: 21 Feb 1996 19:34:35 GMT Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany Lines: 23 Sender: se@Sysiphos (Stefan Esser) Message-ID: <4gfs4b$l8u@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> References: <Dn4vvq.99x.0.macbeth@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: sysiphos.mi.uni-koeln.de To: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) In article <Dn4vvq.99x.0.macbeth@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes: |> I'd like to run the Linux version of netscape because the BSD version |> doesn't support Java. This works fine except that it doesn't like the |> format of the /etc/hosts.conf file. Is there a workaround for this? |> |> (I suppose one could create a complete chroot()ed Linux environment |> with union-mouted filesystems, but that seems a little excessive.) Just at a definition of the kind RESOLV_HOST_CONF=/compat/linux/etc/resolv.conf export RESOLV_HOST_CONF to /etc/profile and put whatever definitions are appropriate for your site into that file ... Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE>