[Fedora-directory-users] FDS on RedHat9

[David Boreham]

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.
>
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