mogul@wrl.dec.com (Jeffrey Mogul) (02/05/91)
In article <73750@bu.edu.bu.edu> eap@bu-pub.bu.edu (Eric A Pearce) writes: > Under Ultrix (and "static" Sun) I would take up more disk >space, but my executable stands a fair chance of working under >Ultrix 3.1, 4.0 or 4.1. I did run into trouble with 3.1 executables >under 4.0, as it looks like the hostname lookup routines changed >enough to break them. Useful trick: copy /etc/svc.conf from one of your 4.x machines to all of your 3.x machines (or pack it along with the binaries you ship). The 3.x programs don't care about, and many programs compiled with the 4.x libraries will run quite happily if the file is there. -Jeff