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Date:      Sun, 28 Jan 1996 15:00:05 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        d_burr@ix.netcom.com (Donald Burr)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Linux-emu, Netscape, and DNS: how to get them to cooperate?
Message-ID:  <199601280430.PAA06645@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960127020159.20710A-100000@ncc-1701-d.starfleet.gov> from "Donald Burr" at Jan 27, 96 02:06:05 am

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Donald Burr stands accused of saying:
> I have a proper host.conf and resolv.conf file in /compat/linux/etc.  I 
> EVEN HAVE TRIED MOVING THESE INTO /etc.  But no success.
> 
> What's going wrong here?  can someone help me out with getting this 
> running?  I'm losing my mind!!!

You need a resolv+ host.conf in /compat/linux/etc, and you need to
set the environment variable RESOLV_HOST_CONF to point to it.

Put a single line in it that says "order bind,hosts"

> On a side note, according to the available doc's on the Linux-emu, 
> whenever a Linux [program or library tries to access a file, the 
> Linux-emu is supposed to add "/compat/linux" to it, i.e. if the program 
> asks for "/etc/hosts", the it actually accesses 
> "/compat/linux/etc/hosts".  This DOES NOT seem to be the case, though, 
> because even though I put a Linux-style host.conf in 
> /compat/linux/etc/host.conf, the Linux resolv+ library always says 
> "invalid keyword hosts" (meaning it's referring to the FreeBSD 
> /etc/host.conf file!).  What gives here?

The emulator prepends "/compat/linux" when searching for executables and
shared libraries.  It wouldn't make any sense to do this for normal files;
stop and _think_ about it for a second.

> Donald Burr [d_burr@ix.netcom.com], PO Box 91212, Santa Barbara CA 93190-1212

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