Everytime I install sendmail I have to suid it to root so that it can
write into /var/spool/mqueue.  Is this intentional?

When I try to upgrade to libstdc++-2.96-0.12mdk.i586.rpm I get the
following errors:

# rpm -Uvh libstdc++-2.96-0.12mdk.i586.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
        libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 is needed by
netscape-communicator-4.76-1mdk
        libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by kdesu-0.98-8mdk
        libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by menu-2.1.5-43mdk
        libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by abisuite-0.7.11-4mdk
        libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by pspell-0.11.2-3mdk
        libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by lftp-2.3.4-2mdk
        libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by groff-1.16.1-4mdk
        libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by gltt-2.4-3
        libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by groff-for-man-1.16.1-4mdk
        libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by xlockmore-4.17.1-2mdk
        libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by mozilla-5.0.0-0.M18.3mdk
        libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by hylafax-4.1-0.3mdk
        libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by libsigc++-1.0.1-4mdk
        libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by xpdf-0.91-6mdk
        libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by aspell-0.32.5-2mdk
        libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by hylafax-client-4.1-0.3mdk
        libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by galeon-0.7.7a-1mdk
        libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by evolution-0.6-1mdk
        libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by gtkhtml-0.7-1mdk
        libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by cups-1.1.4-3mdk
        libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by ghostscript-5.50-36mdk
        libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by gtkmm-1.2.3-3mdk

which is obviously because:

# rpm -qlp libstdc++-2.96-0.12mdk.i586.rpm | less
/usr/lib/libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so
/usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2
/usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3

Is there something wrong here?  What needs to be done to correct this? 
A symlink in the new libstdc++ package for "older" apps?  Maybe a
libstdc++-compat package (~yuck~)?

b.



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Brian J. Murrell

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