Hello, all.
I've got a machine running FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE, and I need to upgrade it
to fix the SSL, procfs issues that have come up lately. The machine's
root partition lacks the space to accomodate world source and object
files, so I have two symlinks for /usr/src and /usr/obj:
/usr/src -- /usr/local/world_src
/usr/obj -- /usr/local/world_obj
I cvsupped RELENG_4_8 and it was all placed under /usr/local/world_src
as I'd expected, and cd'ing into '/usr/src' I can see the same stuff
as if I'd cd'd into /usr/local/world_src. No surprises there.
(In the supfile, I have *default prefix=/usr. Dunno if that applies
to this discussion.)
I cd'd to /usr/src and issued the buildworld command. The build ran
for a while and then finished. I took a look at the contents of
'/usr/obj' (aka /usr/local/world_obj) and saw a directory hierarchy
that matched my '/usr/local/world_src' path:
[vmail:/usr/local/etc]$ ls -lR /usr/obj/|head -n 14
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Oct 8 13:38 usr/
/usr/obj/usr:
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Oct 8 13:38 local/
/usr/obj/usr/local:
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 16 root wheel 512 Oct 8 13:42 world_src/
/usr/obj/usr/local/world_src:
total 64
drwxr-xr-x 32 root wheel 512 Oct 8 13:41 bin/
This struck me as wierd, but I figure it's the way it ought to be,
so I moved on.
One of my aims was to replace libssl.so.3 with a fixed version, so (after
making a backup copy of the current /usr/lib/libssl.so.3) I placed
/usr/obj/usr/local/world_src/secure/lib/libssl/libssl.so.3 into /usr/lib
and then attempted an https connection to the server. (Apache's mod_ssl
was dynamically linked against libssl.so.3). I found that my connection
did not really work properly, creating errors such as these in the httpd
error log:
[Wed Oct 8 16:01:04 2003] [error] [client W.X.Y.Z] Invalid method in request
\x80C\x01\x03
[Wed Oct 8 16:02:48 2003] [error] [client W.X.Y.Z] Invalid method in request
\x16\x03
[Wed Oct 8 16:02:48 2003] [error] [client W.X.Y.Z] Invalid method in request
\x16\x03
Clearly, I did something wrong, for when I replaced the prior libssl.so.3, my errors
went
away. I'm trying to understand now if the root problem is:
1) My '/usr/src' and '/usr/obj' symlinks. I can't see them being the problem, but I
want
leave no stone unturned.
2) Incorrect technique used to replace the libssl.so.3 library. (I am leery of running
'installworld' on this machine, as it is a production system, and I've never built
the world on a production machine.)
3) Something else entirely.
Any clues or pointers as to the cause of the problem would be greatly appreciated.
With thanks,
John
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