[GENERAL] LD_LIBRARY_PATH

2000-12-27 Thread Chris Hayner
hello all. I suppose I should introduce myself, since I am new around here, and as such will probably be asking a lot of silly questions. I apologize for that in advance. My name is Chris Hayner and I work for Temple University doing various work on all flavors of UNIX. My current task is to

Re: [GENERAL] LD_LIBRARY_PATH

2000-12-27 Thread Larry Rosenman
* Chris Hayner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001227 11:41]: hello all. I suppose I should introduce myself, since I am new around here, and as such will probably be asking a lot of silly questions. I apologize for that in advance. My name is Chris Hayner and I work for Temple University doing

Re: [GENERAL] LD_LIBRARY_PATH

2000-12-27 Thread Robert B. Easter
I guess this is a little off topic, but anyhow... See: man 8 ld.so man 8 ldconfig LD_LIBRARY_PATH is generally harmless. Set inside a user's .profile, it allows a user to have user-specific searchable lib directories in addition to global lib directories kept in /etc/ld.so.conf and/or a

Re: [GENERAL] LD_LIBRARY_PATH

2000-12-27 Thread Mike Castle
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 01:40:09PM -0500, Robert B. Easter wrote: See: man 8 ld.so man 8 ldconfig LD_LIBRARY_PATH is generally harmless. Set inside a user's .profile, it Coming from a linux world? hawkeye:/export/home/b015414$ ls /etc/ld* /etc/ld*: No such file or directory Linux acts

Re: [GENERAL] LD_LIBRARY_PATH

2000-12-27 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Mike Castle writes: Linux acts somewhat differently with respect to LD_* variables when compared to other systems. Not really. Speaking of administrative nightmares, did I read correctly that 7.1 now users -R by default when linking? Ack! Doesn't that make it nearly impossible for an

Re: [GENERAL] LD_LIBRARY_PATH

2000-12-27 Thread Robert B. Easter
On Wednesday 27 December 2000 15:09, Mike Castle wrote: On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 01:40:09PM -0500, Robert B. Easter wrote: Just think if you have to move all users from one version to another. You would prefer to edit each person's .profile rather than one central one? When I set it up, I did