Re: Can a symbolic link affect SSH?

From: Alan (alanwhite_nospam_at_streethreds.com)
Date: 06/24/03

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    Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:16:04 +0100

    Thanks for the reply

    Unfortunately I am locked out of my server.... I was trying to figure out
    if this is what would have caused it.

    So this compat-libstdc++ will add a version of the older library?

    in article 3EF8494A.6070309@verizon.net, Nico Kadel-Garcia at
    nkadel@verizon.net wrote on 24/6/03 1:51 pm:

    > 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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