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- From: mnl@dtro.e-technik.th-darmstadt.de (Michael N. Lipp)
- Subject: libc.so.4.2 Caveats!
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- Message-ID: <MNL.93Jan2002919@mnlsun.dtro.e-technik.th-darmstadt.de>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 00:29:19 GMT
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- I have experienced two major problems with the new libc.so.4.2. (Note that
- I started my Linux with SLS .98p5)
-
- 1) The new library has an improved "gethostbyname". A new file
- /usr/etc/inet/host.conf is used to set options. If this file is missing,
- a file containing a single line
-
- order bind
-
- is assumed. This means that ONLY DNS is used to resolve hostnames. Your
- /usr/etc/inet/hosts is never consulted! As I don't have the named
- running, I had to create a file /usr/etc/inet/host.conf containing
- the line
-
- order hosts
-
- Actually, you can have
-
- order hosts nis bind
-
- or any other combination. I did not try to find out about the other
- keywords that can be used in host.conf from the source. Perharps
- whoever wrote the new version can post a little doc.
-
- 2) sed doesn't work any more. I have recompiled it using FSF sed-1.13.tar.Z.
- Strange enough, although I removed the sed-local regex.o getop.o and
- getopt1.o (thus using the functions in libc.so.4.2) and compiled with
- -O2, my new sed is about twice as large as the old one. Was it not
- FSF sed-1.13 in the SLS distribution?
-
- Hope that helps.
-
- Michael
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