On 1/9/07, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote: > On Sunday 07 January 2007 11:19, chrism at imntv.com wrote: > > Just curious about why you'd choose to do that rather than upgrade to > > the latest 3.x or 4.x release. Do you have some canned binaries that > > won't run on a more recent vintage system even with the compatibility libs? > > FWIW, I have a few canned binaries in use at one site that require two really > archaic libs. One is (wait for it) libc5-based. Yes, libc-5.3.12, last > libc5 on RH. Latest libc5 compat was distributed with RHL6.2. The other is > linked against glibc 2.0; it is multithreaded and does not work with glibc > 2.2 (we have tried; it doesn't work) but it will work with glibc 2.1. > > The first app was originally released for Red Hat Linux 4.x (not RHEL4; we > have come full circle on versions, no?), and the second was released for RHL > 5. The CentOS 2.1 VM (VMware server is great for running legacy stuff on > modern hardware that isn't supportable by the old OS) replaces the really old > RHL 4.2 PentiumPro 200 server and the old but not quite so old Mandrake 5.3 > K6-2 500 server (back when Mandrake was RHL+KDE in effect). > > It is a case of 'the app works and we ain't paying for an upgrade we don't > need when the app cost x thousand dollars!' Can't blame them at all; the app > does work and works well, both pieces. Has for nearly ten years now, with > very little downtime. Serves the need (it's a fairly specialized broadcast > radio application written on AOLserver 2.x and tied to some odd backend > stuff). > > But have you tried installing RHL 4.2 lately on anything more modern than a > Pentium II? Or RHL 5.2 (Mandrake 5.3) on anything more modern than a P3? > VMware server solves the problem very nicely. Yep. I use it for even DOS stuff [Hi Lamar.. I was just thinking about the Pisgah ARI this weekend.. wondering how it was going..] > -- > Lamar Owen > Director of Information Technology > Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute > 1 PARI Drive > Rosman, NC 28772 > (828)862-5554 > www.pari.edu > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"