[28] in Locker Maintainers
New IS-supported Linux pilot
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Feb 9 15:48:09 2000
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 15:43:04 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200002092043.PAA23889@small-gods.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: locker-maintainers@MIT.EDU
Information Systems is beginning to support Athena on Red Hat Linux.
We currently have a layered product in testing and a pilot cluster
deployment in W20. Locker maintainers should make their software work
with this release if possible.
The sysname for the current release is i386_linux22. As always, you
have a choice between making a symlink under arch, a symlink farm
under arch/i386_linux22/bin, or rebuilding your entire locker for
i386_linux22. Red Hat's backward compatibility is not as good as
we're used to on other platforms, so you may have to recompile
programs you wouldn't normally have to. Specifically:
* Curses-using programs built under Red Hat 5.x must be
recompiled or they will try to look in /usr/lib/terminfo,
which does not exist in Red Hat 6.1.
* Programs which print dates must be recompiled or they may
try to look in /usr/lib/zoneinfo, which does not exist in in
Red Hat 6.1.
The second problem is a bit more subtle than the first, but affects
more programs.
We have elected not to add /usr/lib/{terminfo,zoneinfo} symlinks on
cluster Linux machines because we want locker software to work for
people using the layered product (without the athena-ws package) as
well as for people using the workstation product.
