On 4/17/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 16:33 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Lee, > > Is that what is specifically required or do we need PAM updated AND > > some new ebuild for set_rlimits? > > One or the other - doing both would be pointless. > > Actually if your distros glibc is also old then you may need to patch > PAM rather than upgrade it. > > Basically set_rtlimits should be considered a stopgap measure to make > non-root SCHED_FIFO work until your distro gets it together and updates > their PAM and glibc ;-) > > See why I recommend just upgrading to a distro with a quicker release > cycle? > > Lee > > It appears that there has been a request in place for pam-0.99 for some time now. The response from developer knowledgable folks is at the end of this bug report: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87577 As for glibc, what is considered old and requires PAM to be patched? Here's what is available on Gentoo: mark@lightning ~ $ eix -I glibc * sys-libs/glibc Available versions: [P]2.2.5-r10 [P]2.3.2-r12 [P]2.3.3.20040420-r2 [P]2.3.4.20040619-r2 [P]2.3.4.20040808-r1 [P]2.3.4.20041102-r1 [P]2.3.4.20041102-r2 [P]2.3.4.20050125-r1 2.3.5 2.3.5-r1 2.3.5-r2 ~2.3.5-r3 *2.3.6 *2.3.6-r1 ~2.3.6-r2 ~2.3.6-r3 ~2.4-r1 *2.4-r2 Installed: 2.3.5-r2 Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html Description: GNU libc6 (also called glibc2) C library Thanks, Mark P.S. - Yeah - If a binary only distro actually worked for the 50 extra things I need to run then I'd consider it but I've been down that path with Fedora and am quite hesitant to go there again. ;-) - MWK
