Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 02:56:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Klaus Werner Krygier <krygier@kph.uni-mainz.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Linux emulation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980411014424.6363A-100000@krygierpc.kph.uni-mainz.de>
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Is it possible to force the Linux emulator to use the /compat/linux tree only for shared libraries and other system files but not on the user level? I our heterogenous computer environment we use a commercial client/server backup system (NSR) which runs on several platforms. Unfortunately, client software for this system is available only for Linux and not for FreeBSD :-(. This software seems to work fine under FreeBSD (because of the excellent Linux emulation :)) but with one ugly exception: Instead of files and directories in the / tree the /compat/linux tree is accessed. Especially addressing of a subdirectory for which the corresponding /compat/linux directory exists yields in accessing ONLY the Linux files. The same effect occurs for example if you use a Linux find: $ ./find /etc /etc /etc/host.conf /etc/ld.so.conf /etc/ld.so.cache /etc/revision-history /etc/nsswitch.conf $ For backup purposes this behaviour is not very useful. In the worst case a backup consists only of Linux files - the last thing we want to backup. Can anyone help us? Klaus Werner Krygier +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dr. Klaus Werner Krygier | Email: krygier@kph.uni-mainz.de | | Institut für Kernphysik | | | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität | Tel: +49-6131-39-2960 | | J.J.Becher-Weg 45 | +49-6131-39-5192 | | D-55099 Mainz | Fax: +49-6131-39-2964 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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