Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:44:39 -0500 From: Shelby Cain <scain@exgenesis.com> To: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: Edward Capriolo <edlinuxguru@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Invoking ldconfig without arguments wipes all hints and makes me very sad Message-ID: <1207863879.11735.85.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200804102309.37024.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> References: <1207855812.11735.39.camel@localhost> <cbbf4b570804101350ndcd4f2kd61f2e80e8597c54@mail.gmail.com> <200804102309.37024.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 23:09 +0200, Mel wrote: > > First of all, running ldconfig without arguments does nothing bad. Running > ldconfig without flags and with arguments does. > > Secondly, what is the command: > ldconfig /usr/lib > > supposed to do, according to newbie friendly logic? > Because it should be possible to "just have the linker create hints for one > directory". > Your example seems perfectly reasonable should one wish to create hints for only one directory. However, in my particular case it seems that my blunder of running ldconfig -v (and not ldconfig by itself as I had assumed - my bad) is sufficient to render it impossible to log in as my regular user account since I had set my default login shell to bash. That, in conjunction with root being disallowed by default in sshd effectively locked me out of my machine once I closed my only open ssh session. Modifying my original suggestion slightly, is there any reason why it would be a bad thing for ldconfig to assume -r when either -v with no other arguments (or no arguments at all) is passed to ldconfig or is there some specific reason for the current behavior? Regards, Shelby Cain [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBH/opHFioAnfS4MHQRAhcnAJ44HmOyRlzrT9mVDdV7aaEPoOCFgACfWrzI LjgIajFvu9tlg8nTehuPkAs= =ncjr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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