Re: resolver problem with Opera

From: Stephan van Beerschoten <stephanb_at_whacky.net>
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 13:25:46 +0200
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 01:12:16PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>"Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj_at_kayjay.xs4all.nl> writes:
>> They are not present. Adding host.conf solved the problem! Although
>> I found a reference to nsswitch.conf in the Opera binary, it seems to
>> be ignored: I do have an nsswitch.conf now, generated at boot time from
>> host.conf, but removing the host.conf makes Opera behave the old way.
>
>that's because Opera is a 4.x binary, and the 4.x libc doesn't know
>about nsswitch.conf.

Isn't it evenly true that Opera is a linux binary and that you could copy this file into /compat/linux/etc to make sure it doesn't negatively affect your FreeBSD? (Correct me if I'm wrong here).

/Stephan

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