On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 01:27:47PM -0800, Joe Slagel wrote: > "Liu, C.C" wrote: > > > Patricia, > > > > Thank you for your response. I took a closer look at the error and found > > it actually complained about "libauth.so.1", a semi-system library. > > The machine I'm playing with is for test/development only and doesn't have > > everything a good server should have. After coping libauth* from other > > box, it works now. > > >From solid on this issue a few years ago: > > Hi, > The problem you are facing is because in Solaris 8, the libauth.so.1 and > libauth.so files have been replaced with libpam.so and libpam.so.1. The > worked around for this problem is to create symbolic links with the names > of the old files, but which point to the ones included in solaris 8 . > - The command to create a link is ln. See manual entry for more info. > - Libraries libpam.so and libpam.so.1 should be found at /usr/lib/ > - If the link can't be created at /usr/lib/ (no permissions etc.) use > setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<directory> to indicate where to look for libraries.
Why is this needed? Why can't Solid or DBD::Solid do-the-right-thing here? Tim.
