From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 2 14:05:27 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA15716 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 May 1995 14:05:27 -0700 Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.BARRNET.NET [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA15705 for ; Tue, 2 May 1995 14:05:22 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.6.10/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with SMTP id OAA09480 for ; Tue, 2 May 1995 14:02:20 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA15483; Tue, 2 May 1995 23:03:10 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA25414 for hackers@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 2 May 1995 23:03:10 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA15197 for hackers@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 2 May 1995 22:36:31 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199505022036.WAA15197@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Netscape 1.1 and Current To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 22:36:31 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Brian Tao" at May 2, 95 02:34:43 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1083 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Brian Tao wrote: > > > netscape: uname() failed; can't tell what system we're running on > > That's funny, I get the error with my 950412 snapshot machine, but > it doesn't seem to cause any problems, and I figured it is because my > machine doesn't have an entry in our nameserver yet. > > % uname -v > FreeBSD 2.0.950412-SNAP #0: Sat Apr 15 00:41:41 CST 1995 > taob@falcon.ibms.sinica.edu.tw:/usr/sys/compile/ARIES You are not snappy enough. :-) j@uriah 562% uname -v FreeBSD BUILT-19950429 #20: Sat Apr 29 22:47:04 MET DST 1995 bin@uriah.heep.sax.de:/home/bin/sys/compile/URIAH The change from ``2.0-something'' to ``BUILT-someday'' might have caused this. My netscape doesn't choke on it, but to quote Terry: ``Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.'' :) The BUILT-something should be changed to 2.0-BUILT-something (i think there's even a PR pending). I didn't break it, so i'm not the person to fix it... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)