On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 00:25, Lamar Owen wrote:
Now, I've thought about a couple of possibilities: 1.) QEMU or VMware or similar running a RH5.2 instance under CentOS 4; 2.) Running a libc5 setup on CentOS 4. I'd rather do this, as security fixes would at least be available.
I'd expect the VMware route to be completely painless and have the least surprises. It doesn't make much sense to throw extra work at something with no future. Security fixes probably won't help with the parts you have to keep running anyway - just firewall access to anything else.
After more research, I found a copy, in my personal download archives, of the old AOLserver tarball linked with glibc2.1, from 1999. I actually found both the libc5 and the glibc 2.1; a good thing, too, since they're not available from aolserver.com anymore, only the full open source versions are there. There is a compat-glibc package for CentOS 2.1 for glibc2.1 (RedHat Linux 6.2's glibc); seems CentOS 2.1 would be a good fit (and, since this is after all the CentOS list, need to stay on topic).
Another possibility would be RH7.3 which is rock-solid and still sort-of supported by the fedora legacy project if the compatibility libs would work. I still have a couple of 7.3 servers running things I've been too lazy to upgrade - and because I don't think the stock mod_perl has worked right again until FC5. The uptime counter has rolled over at least twice on one of them so it hasn't been a problem.