Cliff Rowley wrote:
>
> I dont know the ins and outs of either the hardware, or the programs
> you've mentioned, but I can clear a couple of things up ;)
>
> > I'm trying to explain to a pal who tried BSD recently why this might
> > be. He also had problems with running netscape w/o a.out X binaries
> > (probably because he didn't use the port, right?)
>
> afaik Netscape is aout anyway, so you need the libraries.
>
> > And he also said he
> > had to reboot to use newly installed libraries, that ldconfig did not
> > work. He's an advanced Unix/Linux user, so i don't know what i could
> > do to help him
>
> If he doesnt know how to use ldconfig, he cant be that advanced. The
> problem was most likely that the either the aout directories were not in
> his ldconfig path, or that he failed to specifiy aout when using
> ldconfig. i.e. ldconfig -aout -R, perhaps used with -m and specifying the
> aout directories. If he'd have read the ldconfig man page, he would have
> known this ;)
Advanced Linux == "Can have at most 5 years experience being around
Linux, would be most likely 2."
Advanced Man Page Reader is a required course to be an advanced UNIX
user.
> I'm not trying to insult his knowledge you understand, just giving you
> something to tell him, so he doesnt think it's FreeBSD's fault he couldnt
> set up netscape...
Oh, come now. if anyone claims to be an advanced anything they should
know how to use basic functionality. Stop being so nice. =D
-Brian
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