Re: On Digital Unix V4.0F

Dear Sir,

I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 04:52:57PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I tried to install netsaint-0.0.7 on Digital Unix V4.0F and failed.
> I saw in this list, a couple of you had the same problem and asked for help
> but
> nobody have ever posted an answer.
> 

Unfortunately, Digital Unix is not as common as an Intel Unix or
Solaris; those that do have it may no longer be reading this list.

> On the netsaint web, it says it works on Digital Unix.
> http://www.netsaint.org/ports.php
> 
> But to compile it, we need GNU version of "getopt", which is part of glibc.
> As far as I know, there is no version of glibc ever runs on Digital Unix.

You may be mistaken about getopt being 'part of glibc'.

This FreeBSD host (4.7-RELEASE) has no glibc, but has a getopt

stan# man getopt | head
GETOPT(3)              FreeBSD Library Functions Manual             
 GETOPT(3)

NAME
     getopt - get option character from command line argument list

LIBRARY
     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <unistd.h>
stan# 

You may be able to install getopt (download from GNU; ./configure; make
etc)

You'll almost certainly be glad you did.

> 
> Does anybody has a clear answer for the question:
> "Does the netsaint daemon run on Digital Unix"?
> 

Unfortunately, not I.

However, I would be very suprised if it didn't since I think that
Netsaint uses too few system calls for the kernel to make much
difference to compilation and basic function (if not performance).

Yours sincerely.


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