True about the libs. I haven't had the "joy" of dealing with support about
any Linux problems yet, but I hope it isn't like NT: "I can't help you
because you are using SP5 instead of SP4, call me back when you're at a
supported SP level." Are they the same way with RedHat versions? Last I
knew, they only supported 6.0 and 6.1.
Mark
At 03:42 AM 11/16/00 , Michael McConnell wrote:
>On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Mark Ingles wrote:
>
> > I just installed 2 new RedHat 6.2 firewalls with very few problems. I think
> > you might want to stay away from Redhat 7 and go back to 6.x. They've made
> > some bad decisions on what libraries/compilers they used that will cause
> > your problem.
>
>I agree about the choice of compiler, but if you look through RH's history
>lately every time they changed major version number (5.x, 6.x, 7.x) they
>have changed the libc version to one that isn't binary compatible to the
>previous.
>
>4.x used libc5,
>5.x used glibc-2.0 (libc6.0)
>6.x used glibc-2.1 (libc6.1)
>7 is using glibc-2.2 (libc6.2).
>
>-- Michael "Soruk" McConnell [ Eridani Star System ]
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> Windows must be restarted for the changes to take effect.
> [ OK ]
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