Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:14:39 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Shelby Cain <scain@exgenesis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Invoking ldconfig without arguments wipes all hints and makes me very sad Message-ID: <20080410201439.GA45576@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <1207855812.11735.39.camel@localhost> References: <1207855812.11735.39.camel@localhost>
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--sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 02:30:12PM -0500, Shelby Cain wrote: > Greetings list. I'm a new user to FreeBSD and I just managed to > introduce myself to ldconfig's default behavior. I'm currently locked > out of my remote server since bash isn't statically compiled and will > have to get physical access to correct my blunder. :( It is unwise to use a port as a root shell. What if /usr or /usr/local is o= n a separate partition which isn't mounted in single user mode? Do you know that there are a lot of statically linked binaries available in /rescue just for this eventuality? And that there are two shells amongst them; (t)csh and sh? =20 > As a new user to FreeBSD, ldconfig's default behavior makes about as > much sense to me as rm adding "-fr ~" or kill adding "-9 1" in the > absence of arguments. I hate to sound ignorant but I have to ask, is > there any particular reason FreeBSD's ldconfig defaults to this > seemingly unintuitive and non-newbie-safe behavior? >=20 > Would a patch that changes the behavior of ldconfig to assume -r in the > absence of command line arguments and adds a new parameter like > -e[rase]|-d[estroy]|-w[ipe]|-z[ap]|-l[olnewbie] to enable the original > behavior be likely to gain any acceptance? Can you specify what exactly you mean? Calling ldconfig without arguments doesn't do anything to the hints file: slackbox# ll /var/run/ld-elf.so.hints -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 287 Apr 8 19:40 /var/run/ld-elf.so.hints slackbox# cp /var/run/ld-elf.so.hints /var/run/ld-elf.so.hints.orig slackbox# ldconfig slackbox# ll /var/run/ld-elf.so.hints -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 287 Apr 10 22:03 /var/run/ld-elf.so.hints slackbox# diff -u /var/run/ld-elf.so.hints.orig /var/run/ld-elf.so.hints slackbox#=20 So there was no change to the file. Did you perchance delete the hints file, or unmounted the filesystem where /var is located? Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkf+dS8ACgkQEnfvsMMhpyVvmACeNmunkmeRtqOEs/Xa3qLJvJZe sEYAn1x1vp7ST3dygQVvj38V1GLCZoJj =T8RQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c--
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