Another glibc delicatessen

[quarx]

Hi,
I working around for get running the program weather display in my N5200.
My future idea is make a module, if is possible
But i´m afraid problems, this program need the 2.5 or newer glibc version
and i can see this library in N5200 is 2.3 and are complicated to update.
Any chance to get this program running in the N5200?. is posible put isolated glibc for weather display. Or another way to do this.



Any help was very appreciated
BR, Jose A.

[drewy]

it may be overkill but you could probably get around it by running your code in something like a debian chroot environment.

[quarx]

Hi Drewy.
Thank you very much for your help, very appreciated here
I´m newbie in linux; i have a chroot environment in my N5200 for my experiments, but i not understand some concepts for use chroot.

the user root can launch the chroot environment but this user can not launch weather display program (i.e):

login as: sys
sys@192.168.1.100's password:
root@127.0.0.1:~# chroot /raid0/data/debian /bin/bash
N5200:/# ls
bin   dev  home    lib    mnt  proc  sbin  tmp  var
boot  etc  initrd  media  opt  root  srv   usr
N5200:/# cd home/wd
N5200:/home/wd# ls
GoWdconsole.sh      config.txt   cronftp    deploy         readme.txt
clientraw.txt       config.txt~  cronmysql  fetch3600      tagslist.txt
clientrawextra.txt  consolewd    cronwu     logfiles       wdconsole.ini
clientrawhour.txt   croncwop     datafiles  open3600.conf
N5200:/home/wd# /home/wd/GoWdconsole.sh
ERROR: You can't run this as ROOT. Change to another user and try again.
N5200:/home/wd#


I´m shure this way weather display console (wdconsole) can work but now the user is the problem.

any ideas.

Thx Jose A.

Sorry for my lame english.

[quarx]

Hi again,
now wdconsole work in chroot mode.
i modify several lines that test if user are root:

# Test if user is root and deny access if they are.
# It is not a good idea to be running software as root.
# if [ "`getUID`" = 0 ] ; then
# echo "ERROR: You can't run this as ROOT. Change to another user and try
again.";
# exit;
# fi
# End of User test.

****Weather Display vers WD console 6.5****
If use this program,then please consider sending a PayPal donation to [e-mail] (Brian Hamilton)
to help with costs, and support, thanks!
www.weather-display.com
Connecting TCP/IP 192.168.1.8 22222

Requesting LOOP data from IP
Requesting LOOP data from IP
Requesting LOOP data from IP
raw vp baro 1013.4
raw vp temp 23.2
Vpsolar = 32767
Data OK

Thx to all