An awful lot of services rely on a specific glibc call in order to determine
the hostname of the machine they are running on. Each virtual server is
locked into a chrooted file system, but without patching glibc every virtual
server would still determine they had the same hostname - and that would
lead to arguments. We patch glibc to derive the fqdn of the virtual server
from the the file /etc/FQDN which is established when virtual servers are
created. That way the multiple instances of various services can all play
together nicely...
Tim
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rodrigo Borges
> Pereira
> Sent: 05 June 2001 21:27
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: glibc dumb question
>
>
> sorry for the probably dumb question... but why does glibc need to be
> patched for freevsd?
>
> much thanks in advance to whoever enlightens me about this.
