Your best option might be to build FDS on RH9. I'm not sure that the libraries are backward compatible (almost certain they are not). But a newly built binary should be ok. Radek Hladik wrote: > I have one old RH9 box which functions as a backup server. I'm > periodically backing up DB from primary FDS to it but it would be also > nice to have read-only replica for failover there. But I was not able > to compile FDS on it as there were some very strange compile errors > when compiling libraries for it. I have some ideas how to get it > working and I would like to ask for your opinion: > 1) Run complete FDS+FC5 in vmware, but I think running extra kernel > and daemons will result in unnecessary overhead. On the other hand > this should work and as replication can happen only few times per day > there should be no big overhead till failover situation. > 2) Run FDS binary for FC5/FC4 and copy all required libraries from > FC5/4 and force FDS binary to use them. Or I can copy complete > installed FC5+FDS somewhere and chroot into it. This should eliminate > overhead in option 1 but the 2.4 kernel could be too old for FC5/4 > libraries. I can use some RHEL3 binaries and centos installation but > I'm afraid of compatibility of next FDS releases with those old OSes. > > Do you have any other ideas or is someone running FS on RH9? > > Radek > > > P.S. I'm stuck with RH9 as there is more important service running on > this box which requires RH9. > > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users
