Hi Engelbert, engelbert.gruber@ssg.co.at schrieb am 25.02.2002, 09:19:55:
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
If you install something that was compiled for glibc 2.2 on a 2.4 glibc system then it will run..ie backwards compatible..but if you install something compiled for glibc 2.4 on a system with 2.2 installed..it most like will hiccup and not run right. So if you update glibc on a system to a newer version..then some of the software will need recompiling so it can run right. It's not forward compatible...2.4 binaries will have issues running on a 2.2 (glibc) system. suse64 is pre glibc as far as i can remember, so everything should run as glibc is backwards compatible.
Are you sure? I left the libc untouched. I could imagine that the elder daemons will use the libc and only the newer sshd will use the glibc but who knows for sure?! I will install a second server on another machine within vmware and test it. In the meanwhile I will pray that I do not have to reboot. Should have done this testing before. Million thanks for all your answers, so far. Greetings Ralf Schoenian