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Subject: Re: Apache crashed ?
From: Steve Beattie (stevewirex.net)
Date: Wed Oct 25 2000 - 20:31:34 CDT

On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 06:00:03PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 04:45:32PM -0700, Crispin Cowan wrote:

> > You might want to grab the new FormatGuard version of glibc and try
> > compiling with it http://www.immunix.org/~steve/stackguard/7.0-beta/
>
> That glibc is for 7.0 version of RedHat or Immunix 7.0 only (Steve,
> correct me if I'm wrong.)

Yes, it's only for 7.0 systems. You _can_ upgrade an Immunix 6.2 install
to glibc-2.2 (aka 2.1.94), but doing so involves upgrading to rpm v4.0
and seperate libdb packages. The rpm upgrade can potentially cause you
to lose your installed rpm package database. While I've been running my
primary machine with this configuration for a couple of weeks, it's not
been particularly well-tested. As such, it is not a recommended operation,
especially for production machines.

> You will also have to patch apache to get it
> to compile correctly with FormatGuard.

This is correct as well. 

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