[SunHELP] SS5 and 64bit

[James Fogg]

I have a SS5 with the 70 (or 75?) mhz chip. Documentation on some sun support
sites indicate this uses the sun4m structure and is 64bit capable. I installed
sol7 64 bit and it didn't complain. Now I am getting errors installing 64bit
packages. Someone who should know says the SS5 is 32bit only, that sol7 would
have dropped back to 32bit during install and thats why the 64bit packages are
failing.

What's the real deal?

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, THOU SPAKE:
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Jan Johansson wrote:
> 
> > Do not trust this without hacking your telnet binary. Why?
> >
> > nemesis$ telnet
> > telnet> !echo foo
> > foo
> 
> This is, of course, completely wrong:
> 
> # tail -1 /etc/passwd
> test:x:12345:100:Test acct:/tmp:/usr/bin/telnet
> # su - t1
> -telnet> !echo abc
> echo abc
> : Unknown host
> -telnet> !
> telnet> quit
> -telnet> quit
> 
> /usr/sbin/telnet, like most other programs which allow a "shell" escape,
> uses getpwnam(3C) and the pw_shell member to determine what to execute.
> 
> This is not to say that telnet is escape-free.  Purpose built tools such
> as the gateways in the fwtk package are almost sure to be better bets.
> 
> -James
> 
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