While I agree that McAfee's coding practice is very bad, the ldconfig
man page states that it should not follow symbolic links - the question
then, is should ldconfig follow symbolic links in /lib ? if it should,
the man page needs to be changed. If not, then it's still a bug even
though it show
typo - OS Version is 12.04.2 LTS
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ldconfig follows symbolic links, causing unintended links in /lib
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I realized I did not include the OS Version - I am running 12.05 LTS.
ldconfig version (Ubuntu EGLIBC 2.15-0ubuntu10.3) 2.15
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Title:
ldconfig
Public bug reported:
ldconfig is following symbolic links and creating unintended and
potential harmful links in /lib
In my case, this was first shown when we installed McAfee EpoAgent and
LinuxShield. The system crashed, and failed on boot as init was unable
to load shared libraries. Booting w
Here is something I have discoverd with this bug. The problem is caused
by ldconfig following a symbolic link that points to a symbolic link.
man ldconfig indicates that ldconfig should ignore symbolic links. We
are running the McAfee Epo Ageent and LinuxShield. (we are also running
the McAfee pr
