Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sun, 24 Jun 2001 10:24:38 -0700
From:      Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
To:        ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de
Cc:        msilver@sc.rr.com, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 
Message-ID:  <20010624102438Y.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106241237170.3767-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
References:  <007401c0fc6a$5d1082f0$0200000a@silvertriad> <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106241237170.3767-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
From: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
Subject: Re: 
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 12:39:30 +0200 (CEST)

> At the moment, all seems to 'crash' on simple things like lacking in
> several little stupid standard programs which are not part of the
> Linux base port as nativ Linux code, instead, UNIX respective FreeBSD
> has all the little programs like awk and more. I will inform the list, of
> course and I hope I can offer a way to do it the easy way ...

Why would they need to be linux native?  Things like awk and cp can
simple be used from FreeBSD (even by Linux binaries) unless you do
something crazy like chroot to /compat/linux.  That's not necessary,
you simply run a linux shell so that /compat/linux is first in the
search order.

- Jordan

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20010624102438Y.jkh>