ldconfig creates the necessary links and cache (for use by the run-time linker, ld.so) to the most recent shared libraries found in the directories specified on the command line, in the file /etc/ld.so.conf, and in the trusted directories (/usr/lib and /lib).

The cache mentioned above is very important to any program that uses shared libraries - It is this cache that is used to determine what libs are loaded and which paths are followed to find them.

Regards, Paul.

On Friday 06 February 2004 10:13 pm, Bryce Martin wrote:

Thanks for the tip Paul but I need to know how to run idconfig. I mean, I tried typing idconfig as root and a user at the command line, but nothing happens of course. What do I need to do?

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