named-xfer problem w/chroot on Solaris (very long)

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> Ian Watts <ian at radix.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> > I can't say that I studied your message as carefully as I might have, but
> > the files that I included on my Solaris 8 boxes for running chroot'ed also
> > include:
> 
> > ld.so.1
> > libl.so.1
> 
> > in addition to what you mentioned:
> 
> > libc.so.1         libmp.so.2        
> > libdl.so.1        libnsl.so.1     
> > libld.so.2        libsocket.so.1  
> 
> > It certainly could prevent the transfers.  Copy them to your usr/lib
> > directory and try again.
> 
> Thanks, Ian.  My message is lengthy, I'm glad you skipped it.  I put in
> all the detail that I thought anyone would need both to answer and make
> it worth an archive search.
> 
> Your answer does indeed solve the problem.
> 
> Also, this advice is given on the web pages commonly found to have
> chroot instructions (the Sun World arts, et al.).
> 
> However, my system (SunOS 5.6) does not seem to have libl.so.1 -
> seems Ok without it.
> 
> You would think it anybody in posession of one good brain cell would
> reckon that "dynimcally linked" executables would need to link do
> the dynamic loader library.  For some reason, it being very very
> late at night, I had figured that ld.so had a "lib" prefix on it...
> and the only one I saw was libld.so.2...  plain old wrong thinking.
> 
> Thanks again!  Lesson: after sleep, don't try to continue the previous
> night's unorganized problem solving:  start all over in the morning.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Silverman's Law:
> 	If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.
> 

	You should also note that the ftpd man page is usually a good
	starting point for setting up a chroot envirionment as named-xfer
	needs at least what ls needs to run in a chroot envirionment.

	Mark
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