Re: [cobalt-users] Re: is this what we've been discussing - CERT Advisory CA-2002-27 Apache/mod_ssl Worm

["E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

DT> Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 16:44:44 -0500
DT> From: Dave Thurman


DT> > /usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.a
DT> Isn't that badboy from the non-cobalt install??

No.  The .a extension indicates an ar-created archive that gets
linked into an executable.  Compare with a .so dynamic module.

You can delete .a files and run a system just fine, although
compiling will be a problem.  Not so with .so files; delete those
and dynamically-linked binaries are hosed.

Note that the above paragraph gives some hints as to the
mechanism by which upgrades must be applied.


Eddy
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