Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:07:17 -0400 From: "Edward Capriolo" <edlinuxguru@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Invoking ldconfig without arguments wipes all hints and makes me very sad Message-ID: <cbbf4b570804101507y54668280k9d0098b4ffbc6ea2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1207863879.11735.85.camel@localhost> References: <1207855812.11735.39.camel@localhost> <cbbf4b570804101350ndcd4f2kd61f2e80e8597c54@mail.gmail.com> <200804102309.37024.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <1207863879.11735.85.camel@localhost>
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The command ldconfig -v Wipes your hints without saying a thing about it. I would not call that verbose. If you want to know what I think it should output I suggest. ldconfig -v Number of paths specified 0 News Hints Size: 0 On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Shelby Cain <scain@exgenesis.com> wrote: > > 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 >
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