> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 09:09:49AM -0600, Lonny Selinger wrote: >> Thanks again John. Just in case anyone else ever runs into this. I had >> installed an app that mentioned that /lib/tls needed to be moved for the app >> to run as is had a flaw in it. This was a quick install I found on a site >> somewhere ... eventually (last night) I read the official documentation >> which >> specified that the flaw was in the patch provided quite a while ago for 2.4 >> kernels NOT the 2.6 branch. > > Never, ever, not even one, play with /lib :) > > Unless, of course, you enjoy stuff like self flagelation. Then again, it takes > all kinds ... :) LOL ... actually I play with lib lots. This time however I didn't do any failsafes :/ like creating a "playground" account with static libs and it's own LIBPATH in a little chroot env. Becasue it was a kick toy I figured "if it chokes I'll rebuild it" ... all the while thinking "yeah but what would I do to make it choke? every time I've monkeyed with things I've survived and brought the box back from the dead" .... I should know to never get cocky .... live and learn :D -- L -- "To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work ON it."