Re: Can a symbolic link affect SSH?

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_verizon.net)
Date: 06/24/03 

Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 12:51:24 GMT

Alan wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have just installed some 3rd part software on our server but I had some
> problems getting it running. It turned out the software was looking for an
> old version of a library on our server so someone on their support team said
> to use a symbolic link to point to the newer library. Since doing so I can
> no longer SSH to our server (connection window just closes) nor can I access
> our webmin control panel but the funny thing is it is still server web space
> that I set up.
>
> I am running Redhat 7.1
> The problematic library is this : libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2
> The symbolic link is as follows:-
> ln -s libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2
>
> Any advice as to how this might conflict with SSH configuration would be
> appreciated or if indeed it could affect SSH. As far as I can tell the only
> thing on our server looking for this old library is the software that I
> installed.

What is the third party software? And did you try installing the
"compat-libstdc++" package to provide working versions of the old
libraries that might interoperate with this software?

And definitely remove that symbolic link before you go further.

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