FWIW I did upgrade my CS20 (dual 800MHz ev67) to this glibc. It has
been running fine for weeks with it. I restarted some important
services that I thought might fail under the new glibc like
mysql/clamav/sshd, but I have not rebooted. ;)
Paul Slootman [paul@debian.org] wrote:
> On Wed 21 Feb 2007, Bob McElrath wrote:
>
> > What machine did you test this on? I want to get rid of my clamav
> > zombies and corresponding cron job too... but don't want to have to
> > drive 3 hours to the colo in case it doesn't work... ;)
>
> I did it on an XLT366 (EV56, running 2.6.17.11), upgrading from
> 2.3.6.ds1-4 (I think).
> I did it on my home system from work, figuring I could suffer a couple
> of hours of downtime if it went wrong.
> You could install sash first and do it from there; sash is a stand alone
> shell that's statically linked and thus isn't confused if your libc
> should happen to go bad :-)
>
>
> Paul Slootman
>
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Cheers,
Bob McElrath [Univ. of California at Davis, Department of Physics]
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
depends on the unreasonable man."
-- George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists
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