Re: IIUG-IDS-9-4-UC2-linux Problems

Ben Thompson wrote: > Thomas Ronayne wrote: > > A few guesses only I'm afraid as I haven't used Slackware for ages. > > Perhaps you just need to run "ldconfig" (as root) to pick up the link > to the library you want. But as you say adding the link got the > installer working it's unlikely this is the solution. Oh, did that. > > I do wonder whether you have the correct version of libpam. I have > tried before creating a link to a library of a different name and > implied version but this has never worked for me. There is a libpam > library of the right version on rpmfind.net but don't blame me if > installing this breaks your system. Went there, found that the "current" version is 0.77, went and got that from the maintainer, built, installserver, seems to work (well, Informix installs cleanly, so...). > > Why Slackware? I don't want to get into a distro war but IBM has a > helpful list of distributions and what is required to get them to work > at http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/informix/linux/ids.html Because of what it doesn't do; e.g., run all kinds of stuff that changes things I don't want changed (frequently, I've found, in other distributions). > > Ben. Thanks.