Ah well. Slackware 9.1 is up-to-date so far as its own packages are concerned, and things are working beautifully. I'll definitely not be upgrading to Slackware current again unless it's really necessary. Thanks, Steve *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 5/31/2004 at 9:38 PM Doug Sutherland wrote: >Steve, > >I've gone down the road of playing with slackware-current, and that >basically >equates to unstable, untested, incompatible, etc. Also, mixing and matching >the latest stable rev (9.1) with some of the current stuff is dangerous, >they >often use different revs of the very basic core stuff like gcc, glibc, and >binutils (from which everything is built). With slackware, its usually best >to stick with the latest stable rev, and if you need to upgrade stuff, best >to build from source. > >Regarding your sendmail "lockup", I'm willing to bet that the machine was >not >frozen, rather sendmail was confused about some configuration detail >related >to networking. Like I said before this is common. That used to happen to me >in the redhat 5 days. Usually the problem relates to DNS name resolution. > > -- Doug > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup Stephen Clower, that guy from the south. You can reach me by any of the following: E-Mail: steve at steve-audio.net MSN: steve at steve-audio.net AIM: AudioRabbit03 You can also check out my little home on the web by visiting http://www.steve-audio.net
