On Thu, 23 May 2002, Petro wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 01:04:17PM -0400, Rob Ransbottom wrote: > > On Wed, 22 May 2002, Petro wrote: > > > > Even then I ask: You _want_ to keep your users going when your shared > > libs are flakey??? > > I don't have "users" in the normal sense. I run clusters of web and > database servers,
A distinction without difference here. > things that are hard to keep backed up 100%. > I do have a few users, but they are mostly developers, and on their > staging and dev boxes it might be necessary at some point to get in > and recovery certain bits. > But it's not just about *me*, I can, because of the resources I have > available to me in a medium sized installation (currently around 100 > servers) take a box down and replace it with another one until I > have time to get down the colo and do things some other way. > > Not everyone has this luxury. This is not clear to me. I get out of this that you are scratching at an itch which isn't yours. > > Shared libs could implement a load_all_required_functions routine. > > This would let a program getuid and act like it had static libs. > > This sounds more complex, and unnecessary complexity is not a good > thing. Actually this would simplify things -- most problems (discounting bugs) with libs have to do with mismatching and lacking libs. Of course it is an evolutionary solution, that is appealing when broadly accepted. I doubt much need is seen. What problem are you having or foreseeing? Don't waste time on problems you don't have. How can we help? > > I just keep a rescue partition loaded with debian-base. This > > has lots of benefits. And having your normal root environment is > > nice in stressful situations. > > That isn't a bad idea. It is even better than not bad. You may have an even smaller rescue/boot partition that simply serves out its filesystems. > My last cigarette was roughly 31 days, 9 hours, 3 minutes ago. The traces of habitual patterns should vanish in a year or so. Then it becomes easy. Good going, and good luck going forward. > YHBW YHBW? rob Live the dream. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
