Hi,

strange, would it be glibc's problem? Because
slackware 3.6 I think does not come native with
glibc2.1.

I guess I will try to play with RH 5.2 and then
install the new glibc RPM to see if this is the cause.

Regards,
Chee wai

--- Jubal Kessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Well, I installed RH 6.0 to see for myself, and
> found the system utmp.h
> and utmpx.h files to be the culprit. haven't hacked
> out a solution yet,
> but the files have changed between 5.2 and 6.0 (dumb
> me, didn't save the
> 5.2 headers to compare the difference). login.c uses
> these header files to
> provide the structs for the error messages given,
> and some of the struct's
> components are missing.
> 
> If anyone wants to take a look and patch the problem
> that would be great.
> RedHat 6.0 is scheduled to ship any day now and
> having a fix for ssh would
> be excellent ;-)
> 
> --Jubal
> 
> On Mon, 3 May 1999, Alexander Sokolov wrote:
> 
> > I have the same problem on Slackware 3.6 after
> upgrading to glibc 2.1.
> > Both ssh 1.2.26 and 2.0.12 fail to compile.
> > 
> > On Sun, 2 May 1999, Jubal Kessler wrote:
> > 
> > > I've heard that wtmp has changed in RedHat 6.0,
> and ssh no longer works.
> > > You could modify login.c to account for the new
> changes, or go back to
> > > RedHat 5.2. Either way, a loud and pissy email
> to RedHat is recommended.
> > > 
> > > --Jubal
> 
> 

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