[rescue] a couple of Solaris questions

[Paul Phillips]

This is only on topic because it has do to with my recently rescued dual 
processor Ultra 2 (which I REALLY like!).

1) What does everybody use for a graphical ftp client?  I downloaded LLNL 
xftp from SunFreeware, and it works, but it is pretty bare bones, and not 
particularly artistic to look at.

2) I want to remove the Apache that was installed with Solaris 8 and 
compile my own with mod perl.  So I go to the nice little Solaris Product 
Registry tool, and click on Apache, and it says:

Dependent Components - Entire Distribution.

What!?!  Will I break everything if I remove it?  Is there any problem with 
removing it and compiling my own? (Besides, it is version 1.3.9!)

3) Every once and awhile the path thing bites me.  I installed all the GNU 
stuff from the Additional software CD.  It seems to put all the executables 
and libraries inside /opt/sfw.  So today I was installing Mysql, which 
seemed to not be able to find libstdc++.so.2.10.0 when it needed it ( to 
run mysql_isntall_db).

First I made sure that /opt/sfw/lib was in the path of the user that was 
running mysql_install_db, which was the "mysql" user.  That didn't work.

Then I put a link to libstdc++.so.2.10.0 from the 
/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/, where there are some other shared libraries 
that belong to mysql.  That didn't work.

Finally, I put a link to libstdc++.so.2.10.0 from the /lib directory, and 
that worked.

My question - if /opt/sfw/lib was correctly in the path of the user that 
was trying to run the executable, why couldn't the executable find the 
library that it needed.  I checked by doing echo $PATH and it was there, 
clear as day...

Any hints?

Thanks so much for your help.

Paul



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Paul Phillips
Director of Orchestral Activities, Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University

"You must sing every note you play, sing even through the rests!"
Arturo Toscanini