Hi,
On 3/19/2007 11:14 AM, Alan Brown wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Kern Sibbald wrote:
>
>>>> Has anyone built a bacula-fd for suse-9 at all?
>>> Yes. No rpms here, though.
>>>
>>> I'm quite sure someone else will have an rpm soon for the FD at least.
>> Hopefully the above is true, but if I recall correctly, the Bacula project
>> (i.e. Scott) is no longer supporting SuSE 9.
>
> I've previously discussed with Scott about making bacula-fd-static
> binaries available (where possible) for use on obsolete systems.
>
> While I realise it's not always possible to make a full -static set, 99%
> of the time the filedaemon is the only thing needed - in order to keep
> backing up older systems until they're replaced.
Ok, I have an FD for SuSE 9.2 which should also work on SLES9.
Statically linking was not possible, after some playing around, I always
ended up with:
elf:/srv/nfsexport/bacula/bacula-2.0.2 > grep Static ./config.out
Statically Linked Tools: no
Statically Linked FD: yes
Statically Linked SD: no
Statically Linked DIR: no
Statically Linked CONS: no
elf:/srv/nfsexport/bacula/bacula-2.0.2 > ldd src/filed/bacula-fd
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libacl.so.1 => /lib/libacl.so.1 (0x4002f000)
libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0x40035000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x40047000)
libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x40059000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x40116000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x40139000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x40141000)
libattr.so.1 => /lib/libattr.so.1 (0x40257000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
elf:/srv/nfsexport/bacula/bacula-2.0.2 >
I can not find static .a libraries for linux-gate (whatever that is) and
libattr, so I assume these might be one reason for not having a static
FD possible.
Anyway, as far as I can see the FD should run on minimal
SLES9-installation, perhaps even when running a recovery version from
DVD and accessing the FD binary and configuration via nfs or similar.
I can mail the FD, or put it onto a web site if there is need for it.
244k stripped, and here is a checksum:
f2333e592204ae69800b265936ccfac05aa08c79 src/filed/bacula-fd-stripped
> Right now I can imagine several people asking why I don't just update
No need to explain that - I still have SuSE 8.1 running my Bacula server :-)
> and
> the answer is simple
My answer would be even simpler :-)
> - we are a space lab, supporting projects which may
> run for a decade or more and a lot of the time the software is binary-only
> and keyed to a particular machine and/or OS(*) - which means we are locked
> into using that machine or OS until the probe in question (somewhere
> around the solar system) finally dies.
Which would be the time when you don't need a FD for it any more, any
suppose...
>
> (*) Sometimes we have sources and find that the person who wrote the code
> is long gone, or the code is very tightly coded to the OS - but more often
> it's just so incredibly badly written that it's totally non-portable.
> Rocket Scientists are some of the lousiest programmers on the planet.
That's because you don't have to be a rocket scientist to write code ;-)
Arno
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