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Re: prelink cron script



On Friday 04 October 2002 13:58, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 22:41, Jack Howarth wrote:
> > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2002-10/msg00089.html
>
> Solving rpm -V by un-prelinking and re-prelinking all programs.
>
> >    The only problem currently is that prelinking is rather slow.
>
> Which would make tripwire excruciatingly slow.
>
> Also tripwire would need write access to all programs - which I would not
> want to grant!

Which is why it makes sense that the machine's admin controls whether 
prelinking is done or not.

The -user list and other lists I am on are now routinely running anecdotal 
reports of Mandrake and other linux dists running 'faster' than Debian.  We 
should at least look into the possibilities.



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