Always a good thing to remember ... be careful when you update -
especially if that update is to something like glibc.

    srs

On Thursday, March 20, 2003 10:45 PM [GMT+0530=IST],
Adam H. Pendleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I had this problem last night on one of my servers, and it screwed me
> pretty good.  I installed the updates, and went to make dinner.  When
> I got back my SSH session had timed out.  I tried to SSH back into
> the box, no luck.  I noticed the glibc banner from Exim, and realized
> that it had hosed up my OpenSSH server.  The server is quite a few
> miles away, and I didn't have any other method to get shell access to
> the machine, so I had to make a long drive to perform a reboot.  :(
> Needless to say, be careful when installing the RH updates.
>
> ahp
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 13:03:10 -0400, Patrick Boutilier
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> If you are running RedHat 8.0 and apply the latest glibc updates
>> (2.3.2-4.80) you might get the following error. Restarting the Exim
>> daemon fixes the problem.
>>
>> OpenSSH was affected by the same problem as well. RedHat 7.3 doesn't
>> seem to have the problem, at least not with OpenSSH.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> telnet student.ednet.ns.ca 25
>>
>> Trying 142.227.51.33...
>>
>> Connected to Student.EDnet.NS.CA (142.227.51.33).
>> Escape character is '^]'.
>> /usr/local/exim/bin/exim: relocation error: /lib/libnss_dns.so.2:
>> symbol __libc_res_nquery, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file
>> libresolv.so.2 with link time reference
>> Connection closed by foreign host.
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users
>> Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##



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