On Tue, 15 Apr 1997 10:55:39 -0700 
 "Graham, James" <James.Graham@Schwab.COM> wrote:

 > Any time I do host name resolution, be it thru telnet, rsh, rlogin, ftp
 > or whatever, I get
 > 
 > 	Bad system call (core dumped)

...can you ktrace the executable?  It would help to know which one
it's trying to call...

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