I received several replies asking me to summarize responses to my
original mail. My original mail is enclosed.
Many people suggested I swith to SunOS 4.1.3. I wish I could. I am
saddled with Solaris 2.3 for various reasons at my site.
Most people were curious about how well the TIS toolkit I built
worked. It is still a bit early to tell, but tn-gw, ftp-gw, netacl,
and smap/smapd all seem to work well after limited testing.
One person said that building with the /usr/ucblib libs is crazed and
that things will fail in random ways. I have heard this statement
before regarding SVR4 in general (thus my original mail), but I wonder
if this is a problem with Solaris 2.3.
Because Sun has strong BSD ties & is trying to sell SVR4 to their BSD
installed base, I would expect them to have the best ucblibs of all
the SVR4 vendors.
I contacted Sun support to find out what condition the /usr/ucblib's
are in. I had to explain what the /usr/ucblib's were and wait a few
days to hear back. Sun told me that some things work well and others
don't. I asked for more specifics and have not heard back from them
(it's been roughly a week).
I'll keep the list up to date as things change.
Todd Joseph
twj @
world .
std .
com
- -------- Original Mail to Firewalls:
Hi Folks,
I have built the TIS toolkit on Solaris 2.3 using the Sun C compiler
and the /ucb/ucb/cc shell script -- which uses /usr/ucblib instead of
/usr/lib. Everything except ftpd built cleanly with little effort.
Has anyone else built the TIS toolkit in this way? If so, are there
any gotchas?
I'll summarize if there is signifigant interest.
Todd
twj @
world .
std .
com
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