Re: ldconfig

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From: Godmar Back (gback@cs.utah.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 26 1999 - 19:35:18 EST

 Erez,

I agree that system install scripts should not necessarily require
interaction. I interpreted "ask me" and "prompt" not as literally
as you did. An option would certainly be fine, I think.

        - Godmar

>
> In message <199901262239.PAA20570@sal.cs.utah.edu>, Godmar Back writes:
> >
> > I consulted two experienced sysadmins (well, as experienced as you're
> > going to get if you're part of one of the few successful ISP startups,
> > like Dave is), and this is their opinion:
> >
> > Jeff says:
> >
> > You think it would ask first, wouldnt you? From the "security" section
> > of the man page:
> >
> > "In addition to building a set of hints for quick lookup, [ldconfig]
> > also serves to specify the trusted collection of directories from
> > which shared objects can be safely loaded."
> >
> > Dave says:
> >
> > I'm with Jeff here. It should prompt the user before running
> > anything which changes a system-wide parameter such as the ldconfig
> > path. Alternately, it should support a separate target, "make
> > touchup" which does the sensitive parts of the install.
> >
> > - Godmar
>
> I disagree. I've been doing sysadmin for over 10 years, and managing teams
> thereof, and I would NOT want a "make install" to stop and prompt me for
> anything. If I'm su-ed to root, I want make install to run ldconfig. If
> I'm not, then I don't mind if it'll run ldconfig and fail or avoid running
> it at all (the way make install of gnu sh-utils will not install su unless
> you're running as root.)
>
> I don't mind if we choose to have the default behavior changed to run
> ldconfig based on an option or disable it based on an option or even make
> another option that will interactively ask if to run ldconfig. But please
> do not make the default behavior of anything automatically configured via
> libtool interactive. That will mess people up when building/running stuff
> from other scripts/tools.
>
> Erez.
>

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