On Friday 04 October 2002 13:58, Russell Coker wrote: > On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 22:41, Jack Howarth wrote: > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2002-10/msg00089.html > > Solving rpm -V by un-prelinking and re-prelinking all programs. > > > The only problem currently is that prelinking is rather slow. > > Which would make tripwire excruciatingly slow. > > Also tripwire would need write access to all programs - which I would not > want to grant!
Which is why it makes sense that the machine's admin controls whether prelinking is done or not. The -user list and other lists I am on are now routinely running anecdotal reports of Mandrake and other linux dists running 'faster' than Debian. We should at least look into the possibilities.
