Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 18 May 1996 10:20:16 +0100 (BST) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: What is iBCS |
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On Fri, 17 May 1996, Derrik Pates wrote:
> On Fri, 17 May 1996, Bryn Paul Arnold Jones wrote: > > > > > Then the answer's proberbly no, what is does is allow you to run binaries > > in the iBCS2 format (like ELF, and a.out, iBCS is just a type of binary), > > the thing about this type of binary is it's used on (amoungst other > > things) SCO Unix, so you can get (for example) Word Perfect for SCO, and > > run it on your Linux box. > > Not quite. All iBCS2 is is a specification for running Intel UN*X > binaries (a.out, ELF, COFF, XOUT) across multiple platforms of UN*X. Yes, > you can use SCO UNIX binaries, but there are others too, including XENIX > and a few others. Look at the README in the iBCS source. >
I was just trying to give an idea about what it's for, and I assume he's not using, as he's not complaning that "my copy of XXX that I payed $$$ for isn't working anymore".
> > > > Nothing, it's just your startup scripts that are trying to insmod the > > iBCS.o kernel module at boot time (proberbly without the .o ;). If you'r > > sure that you don't use it (and it sound's like you don't), go look in > > /etc/rc.d/* for the offending script, and comment the insmod (or it could > > remotely be a modprobe) that's causing the problems (a good way would be > > to issue this command (as root) 'find /etc/rc.d/ -type f -print > > |xargs grep -n iBCS', this will find all occurances of iBCS, and tell you > > the line number to look at as well). > > In case _you_ haven't looked in your etc/rc.d directory, there is an > rc.ibcs2 script. All you have to do is edit that and comment out the line > that loads the iBCS module into the system. >
I have looked, and on my (Red Hat) box, it's loaded in /etc/rc.d/rc[235].d/S<priority>ibcs, which are all symlinks to /etc/rc.d/init.d/ibcs. I don't assume that all Linux boxes are the same, you shoulden't either.
> > P.S.: Please be a little more _informed_ about these things. If you are > NOT SURE, tell people that you think that's how it works, but to ask > someone else to be sure.
Likewise ....
> If someone's new to this, and you tell them this > stuff, if they have no other source, they'll take it as gospel. Believe > me, I've seen it a million times. (not quite, but close!) >
Yes, I was only trying to give an _idea_ of that what it does, not an exhaustive list of capabilities. Bryn -- PGP key pass phrase forgotten, \ Overload -- core meltdown sequence again :( | initiated. / This space is intentionally left | blank, apart from this text ;-) \____________________________________
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