Steve Harris wrote: > Heh, everyone has libc warstories. I deleted glibc fomr my studio linux > box last year. Lucily I could put it back with RPM as the rpm program > doesn't link against libc. wow... thats impressive, how did you do it?... getting a little overzealous with rm -rf ?.... time before last that i killed a linux box was by upgrading the various c libs with --force... thats why im a little once-bitten twice-shy....! guess the only option unless i get off my bum and get my LAN working is to try and upgrade glibc and see what it barfs up the screen... hmm.... fun... ;-) m~ -- iriXx www.iriXx.org copyleft: creativity, technology and freedom? info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.copyleftmedia.org.uk _ ( ) ascii ribbon against html email X / \ cat /dev/sda1 > /dev/dsp *** stopping make sense ***