On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:37:06PM -0500, Claude Jones wrote: > > Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 17:43 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > > > > > I seem to have "firefox-1.0" and "firefox-0.10.1" directories > > > under /usr/lib although the Firefox version that's executing is 1.0. Do > > > I need to uninstall anything in order to get this to work. > > > > "Make a symbolic link to libjavaplugin_oji.so in your Mozilla Plugins > > directory. > > In some very old messages I seem to recall that > a copy of the file was needed not a symbolic link. It's the other way around--link required, not copy. > > There was no explanation but I suspect that the security > model of Java can make following links more 'interesting' > than normal. This link .vs. copy issue can also be important > for chroot'ed environments. Since I do not know how Java > manages it's sandbox/ security model there are a number > of things to pay attention to. I'm pretty sure the link is needed so the plugin can find its libraries relative to itself. > > An advanatage of links is that only one file needs to be updated. > Chroot'ed areas need to be inspected for outdated binary objects > that you will have noted in your system notebook. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
