Linux-Misc Digest #556, Volume #26 Fri, 15 Dec 00 21:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: best linux soundcard ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Embedded SQL databases for Linux (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: blindly accepted net advice--> blew away filesystem ("Alk")
Re: Why do I see a directory listing instead of my web page??? ("Dan Krones")
Fetchmail - non-fatal error with ssh (Brian S Enyart)
Re: System time drifts (Matthew Lybanon)
Re: System time drifts (Timothy J. Lee)
AverTV USB on Linux ("Steve")
Re: shell script question (Manitee)
Re: best linux soundcard ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Cd writing problem (Mike Thurlow)
Re: System time drifts (Bit Twister)
Re: mpeg layer 3 wavs (Dances With Crows)
Re: System time drifts (Bill Unruh)
Re: sharing file linux and w2k ("Andrew Sibre")
Accessing linux filesystem from Windows (Sswitcher)
soundcard and Linux ("Anurodh Pokharel")
Re: Accessing linux filesystem from Windows ("Hwang Sungwon")
Re: Problem mit Image =?iso-8859-1?Q?zur=FCckspielen?= (dd) (berndt diekmann)
Does gunzip have a file size limit ? ("Robert Chalmers")
Re: Accessing linux filesystem from Windows ("Anurodh Pokharel")
Re: Mandrake upgrade: terrible ("Nikita V. Youshchenko")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: best linux soundcard
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 22:18:59 GMT
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Michael Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <91cf8o$9hk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm about to purchase a new soundcard.
> >
> > What type of soundcard is ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEED to work with Linux,
> > including all sorts of SMP kernels?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Wroot
> >
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>
> I kinda like my SBLive card with the OSS Commercial Drivers.
You MUST be joking!!!
SBLive is what I have right now (It shipped with our Dell Preinstalled
Linux workstation)
First of all, I tried everying: downloaded the drivers, [re]compiled
everying, even the kernel. It doesn't work even with non-SMP kernel.
If I'm not mistaken,
http://opensource.creative.com/ clearly states that SBLive won't work
with SMP kernels.
This is exactly WHY I'm in the market for a new soundcard.
yours,
Wroot
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Embedded SQL databases for Linux
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 17:33:54 -0500
jay wrote:
>
> I am looking for a database to use for project that I am working on. I
> am trying to find an embedded database that supports SQL. I have looked
> into Berkeley DB but there is no SQL support. What else is available?
> So far, I have found very little. Thanks.
>
I run IBM's DB2 UDB V6.1 (although 7.1 is out now). It costs about
$350, so whether you want to use it is up to you. It works extremely
well, but their customer support is non-existant unless you are
willing to pay $210/hour for each hour or fraction thereof. I refused
to pay, so I must figure out most things myself.
I used to run Informix-SE, but it had only a C API and no C++ API,
which was a great annoyance to me. It quit when I upgraded my OS from
RH 5.0 to RH 6.0 because I could no longer read their CD-ROM and they
would not send me a new one.
In mid 1998, I tried postgreSQL 6.3.2 and it was lousy then. I then
tried postgreSQL 6.4 and it was lousy too, but in different ways. It
is my understanding that it has been much improved since then and you
may wish to look into it.
If transactions are not important to you, MySQL might be of use. IIRC,
it is free for personal use.
This by no means exhausts the list of possibilities.
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^^-^^ 5:25pm up 11 days, 2:13, 2 users, load average: 2.11, 2.17, 2.17
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From: "Alk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: blindly accepted net advice--> blew away filesystem
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 00:40:05 +0200
Reply-To: "Alk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Have you ever heard of some thing called backup or so?
About using unrestricted account only to change its password from system
console?
Are you always following strangers advices like \drop dead\ etc?
AG
"Dan Jacobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:916aa7$59d$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Here's an example of what happens when you go blindly ahead and
> execute well intentioned netnews advice. What this message in big5
Chinese says
> is that
> he wanted to remove his many "core" files, and the respondent forgot to
tell him
> to add '-name' after 'find /' ... and indeed his entire filesystem was
wiped.
> Don't let it happen to you. [From
> tw.bbs.comp.linux ]
>
> "象形奪名" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 撰寫於郵件
> news:3dXJD9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > ==> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paradise) 提到:
> > > ※ 引述《itis (瘋狂工讀生)》之銘言：
> > > > 書上說這樣打可以刪除core
> > > > 可是我在liunx輸入後....沒效...還說find命令錯誤
> > > > 該如何打ㄋ？
> > > 有必要這麼麻煩嗎... rm ./core 不就好了？
> > > 殺全部的用下面這個。
> > > find / core | xargs rm -fr
> > > 三兩下清潔溜溜...
> >
> > 我執行你這指令，結果讓 /home/ 還有很多目錄底下的東西全部清潔溜溜了...
:<
> >
> > 這是實驗室公用的工作站，系統是 freebsd
> >
> > 請問還有補救的方法嗎？
> --
> www.geocities.com/jidanni E-mail: restore ".com." 積丹尼
> Tel:+886-4-5854780; starting in year 2001: +886-4-25854780
>
>
>
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From: "Dan Krones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why do I see a directory listing instead of my web page???
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 22:51:04 GMT
Thanks for your help!!
I did what you suggest and it all seems to be set up correctly. I am
thinking that I might have a DNS problem. Do you know if a DNS problem
could produce the results I am seeing?
-Dan
"Ian Tindale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Dan Krones wrote:
>
> > Why do I see a directory listing instead of my web page???
>
> It's possible to have httpd.conf set up so it only regards index.htm as
> the default - or you can have it set up so that default.htm,
> default.html, index.htm, index.html (and others) all have the same
> desired effect. Do a find for index in the httpd.conf file, and if you
> find the relevant area, see what the comments say.
>
> Ian Tindale
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian S Enyart)
Subject: Fetchmail - non-fatal error with ssh
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 22:56:37 GMT
When I run fetchmail, I get the following:
$ fetchmail
mesg: cannot stat
fetchmail: No mail for...
The error is non-fatal, and doesn't stop fetchmail from receiving
messages. This has happened since I attempted to add in a ssh preconnect.
.fetchmailrc:
poll mailhost port 1234 via localhost protocol pop3 user username limit 50
000 pass password:
preconnect "ssh -f mailhost -L 1234:mailhost:110 sleep 5 "
What's causing the "mesg: cannot stat" error and how do I fix it?
--
Brian Enyart
http://members.iquest.net/~enyart
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From: Matthew Lybanon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: System time drifts
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 16:58:40 -0600
I have been having exactly the same problem (with a 6 hour time difference).
My /etc/sysconfig/clock file reads:
UTC="no"
ZONE=America/Chicago
ARC=false
Should I change
UTC="no"
to
UTC=false
?
For that matter, should I put quotes around
America/Chicago
(or change it to something else)?
Thanks for any help.
David wrote:
> Tim Herzog wrote:
> >
> > I just installed 7.0 (RedHat) and I'm having the same problem I first had
> > under 5.2. I can set the system clock (e.g., "date 12151315"), but when I
> > reboot (shutdown -r now), it comes up about 7 hours in the future. How
> > can I get the time to persist between reboots? I remember having this
> > problem with my previous v5.2 release, but it mysteriously "went away." I
> > know I could use NTP to set the time, and probably should, but I don't
> > think that fixes the real problem here. Could this be a CMOS problem, ie,
> > time to replace the battery? But I didn't have problems until I
> > upgraded...
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Tim
> >
> > --
> > Tim Herzog
>
> To check to see if this could be the problem:
>
> cat /etc/sysconfig/clock
>
> This will show you the clock file. If this could be causing the problem
> it will probably look like the one shown.
>
> ZONE="US/Central"
> UTC=true
> ARC=false
>
> It should look similar to this with the correct country and timezone in
> the first line. The second line tells Linux to assume the BIOS clock is
> set to the UTC or GMT timezone. If this is what yours looks like then
> you should change the UTC line to correct it as shown below.
>
> vi /etc/sysconfig/clock
>
> UTC=false
>
> --
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy J. Lee)
Subject: Re: System time drifts
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (this is a valid address for a limited time)
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 23:47:13 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tim Herzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I just installed 7.0 (RedHat) and I'm having the same problem I first had
>under 5.2. I can set the system clock (e.g., "date 12151315"), but when I
>reboot (shutdown -r now), it comes up about 7 hours in the future. How
>can I get the time to persist between reboots?
Check the UTC line in /etc/sysconfig/clock and the output of
"hwclock" (with --utc if UTC=true in /etc/sysconfig/clock).
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No warranty of any kind is provided with this message.
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From: "Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AverTV USB on Linux
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 23:54:25 GMT
Anyone tried the AverTV USB external TV tuner device on Linux (more info on
device at: http://www.avermedia.com/products/tvusb01.html).
Steve
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From: Manitee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: shell script question
Date: 15 Dec 2000 15:54:43 PDT
Matt Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> grep $i /etc/aliases
I posted that original message while very tired. Anyway,
here is what I've settled on:
#!/bin/sh
grep "$1" /etc/mail/aliases
It works fine. Any ideas on how to spruce it up a bit?
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Best Regards,
Manitee
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: best linux soundcard
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 23:48:53 GMT
In article <91cf8o$9hk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm about to purchase a new soundcard.
>
> What type of soundcard is ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEED to work with Linux,
> including all sorts of SMP kernels?
Not being a commercial system, Linux cannot make such guarantees.
If a particualr card doesn't work, take it back and exchange
it for one that does.
The best soundcards, in my experience, have always been the
simplest, most generally brain-damaged, like the classic
SoundBlaster 16. I currently use a no-name Crystal-based card
(PnP works fine with isapnp) and it works perfectly.
Laura Halliday VE7LDH "Que les nuages soient notre
Grid: CN89mg pied a terre..." - Hospital/Shafte
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From: Mike Thurlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cd writing problem
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 00:08:55 GMT
I have a problem in trying to burn cds and I am not entirely sure if it
is a hardware or software problem.
I am using cdrecord 1.9 on a pc running redhat 6.2 with scsi hard disc
and cd-rw. The cd is apparently burnt with no errors (although it is a
bit slow to get started) but it cannot be read. Looking at the burnt
tracks I can see a gap a few mm wide just after the beginning of the cd
which I presume is why it can't be read.
Guessing it might be a problem with the cd-rw (which was new and in a
new computer) I swapped it with a tried-and-trusted (and older) cd-r
which worked on another computer. The same problem again!
Any help would be very much appreciated
--
Mike Thurlow
Dept of Physics & Astronomy
University of Manchester, UK
--
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Dept of Physics & Astronomy
University of Manchester, UK
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Subject: Re: System time drifts
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 00:20:44 GMT
I am also running with Mandrake 2.2.15-4. Here's mine.
UTC=false
ZONE=US/Central
ARC=false
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 16:58:40 -0600, Matthew Lybanon
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have been having exactly the same problem (with a 6 hour time difference).
>My /etc/sysconfig/clock file reads:
>
> UTC="no"
> ZONE=America/Chicago
> ARC=false
>
>Should I change
> UTC="no"
>to
> UTC=false
> ?
>For that matter, should I put quotes around
> America/Chicago
>(or change it to something else)?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: mpeg layer 3 wavs
Date: 16 Dec 2000 00:26:08 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 19:02:39 GMT, Rick Pasotto staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>On 15 Dec 2000 01:18:14 GMT in comp.os.linux.misc, Dances With Crows wrote:
>I am simply going by the output of 'play':
>sox: Sorry, this WAV file is in MPEG Layer 3 format.
>
>> If the file contains MPEG 1 layer 3 compressed audio data, it's an MP3
>> and can be played with xmms or mpg123 or mp3blaster or 5 or 6 other
>> programs.
>
>Thank you. mpg123 works if I redirect stderr. I wanted something to use
>in a script. However, mpg123 won't play real wav files. So, for example,
>I can't mix-and-match the two types of sound files for use in licq since
>licq uses a single program to play sounds.
>
>Is there a linux program I can use to convert? sox evidently won't do it.
Read the man page for mpg123, paying particular attention to the -w
option. If these are long files (> 10 seconds or so) use gogo or
bladeenc or lame to turn the PCM wavs into MP3s and go from there.
Oh yes, if you are going to be using .signature files, remember the
McQuarrie convention. Delimiter is "-- " not "--", length not to exceed
4 lines of not more than 80 characters each.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: System time drifts
Date: 16 Dec 2000 00:24:39 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim
Herzog) writes:
]I just installed 7.0 (RedHat) and I'm having the same problem I first had
]under 5.2. I can set the system clock (e.g., "date 12151315"), but when I
]reboot (shutdown -r now), it comes up about 7 hours in the future. How
]can I get the time to persist between reboots? I remember having this
]problem with my previous v5.2 release, but it mysteriously "went away." I
]know I could use NTP to set the time, and probably should, but I don't
]think that fixes the real problem here. Could this be a CMOS problem, ie,
]time to replace the battery? But I didn't have problems until I
]upgraded...
You told the system that your BIOS clock was running in UTC (Universal
Time =GMT). However your onboard clock is actually set to local time (do
you use Windows?) Either tell your system your hardware clock is in
local time (in which case linus will not take care of daylight savings for you), that
or set your hardware clock to UTC and have your windows clock always be
out. Or install
chrony
and run
chrony -r -s
when the system boots up to compensate for your bad clock ( but you will
still have trouble with daylight savings).
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From: "Andrew Sibre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: sharing file linux and w2k
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 19:27:35 -0500
Yes. I have W98 and LILO on IDE, FAT32 and RedHat 6.0 on SCSI .
FAT32 (vfat) is r/w by either Linux or W98.
Have fun!
--Amos the Tactful
"Andy Heath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:lZPZ5.14119$I5.156243@stones...
> If I buy a laptop with w2k can I share files between
> linux and w2k some way. For example, could I have a
> FAT32 partition on the same disk written to by both OS's
> in the same way O can mount w95/8 partitions ?
>
> Andy
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From: Sswitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Accessing linux filesystem from Windows
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 02:06:28 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have Win95 and Linux peacefully coexisting on my P-166, with
LILO set up to boot either OS. But sometimes while I'm running
Win95, I suddenly realize I need this one vital file, but it's
in my Linux partition. To reboot the machine just to copy one
file is - shall we say - somewhat inconvenient. So what I'm
hoping might exist is a Win95 program that can mount and access
(read-only) Linux filesystems. Does anyone know if such a beast
exists?
Frank
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From: "Anurodh Pokharel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: soundcard and Linux
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 20:02:18 -0500
Hi,
I am running mandarke 7.1 with Window Maker on a PII with 32MB RAM. when i
installed, i got everything working except the soundcard which is a ISA
creative AWE 64 card.
Does anyone know how i could get my sound card working under linux without
recompiling the kernel because it seems like a real pain to do that and i
dont have the HDD space .I also havent installed g++ or any of the source
files because i intend to use the linux box for really simple stuff like
word processing and browsing
Thanks
-Anurodh
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From: "Hwang Sungwon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Accessing linux filesystem from Windows
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:14:58 +0900
There is such a beast named explore2fs..:-)
Though beta version, you can get a text or binary file from linux partition
easily.
follow this url http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/
Sswitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>檜(陛) 嬴楚 詭衛雖蒂
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]縑 啪衛ж艘蝗棲棻.
> I have Win95 and Linux peacefully coexisting on my P-166, with
> LILO set up to boot either OS. But sometimes while I'm running
> Win95, I suddenly realize I need this one vital file, but it's
> in my Linux partition. To reboot the machine just to copy one
> file is - shall we say - somewhat inconvenient. So what I'm
> hoping might exist is a Win95 program that can mount and access
> (read-only) Linux filesystems. Does anyone know if such a beast
> exists?
>
> Frank
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From: berndt diekmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Problem mit Image =?iso-8859-1?Q?zur=FCckspielen?= (dd)
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 01:42:29 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tobias Dresbach wrote:
> =
> dd if=3D/mnt/nfs/ap01.raw of=3D/dev/hdd bs=3D512 seek=3D340787200
> und dann kommt der Fehler:
> .../dev/hdd w=E4re keine richtige Angabe oder so
> no space left on device
Solche Sachen hab ich noch nicht gemacht, aber hei=DFt das da oben nicht,=
das auf dem device kein Platz mehr ist?
-- =
MfG Berndt
hier sollte ein schlauer Spruch stehen,
mir f=E4llt aber grad keiner ein :-)
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From: "Robert Chalmers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Does gunzip have a file size limit ?
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 12:57:44 +1000
I'm trying to gunzip a VERY large file. 3 Gb uncompressed, nearly 400Mb compressed.
And even using zcat -f, it comes back with a
"file too big" error.
I thought it might be running out of disk space - but it is only 71% used when it
dies. Which should be plenty !!!
any ideas anyone ?
Bob
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From: "Anurodh Pokharel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Accessing linux filesystem from Windows
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 20:43:56 -0500
Dude, I just tried it on my win95 machine. works like a charm!
-Anurodh
Hwang Sungwon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:91efm2$onb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> There is such a beast named explore2fs..:-)
> Though beta version, you can get a text or binary file from linux
partition
> easily.
>
> follow this url http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/
>
>
> Sswitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>檜(陛) 嬴楚 詭衛雖蒂
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]縑 啪衛ж艘蝗棲棻.
> > I have Win95 and Linux peacefully coexisting on my P-166, with
> > LILO set up to boot either OS. But sometimes while I'm running
> > Win95, I suddenly realize I need this one vital file, but it's
> > in my Linux partition. To reboot the machine just to copy one
> > file is - shall we say - somewhat inconvenient. So what I'm
> > hoping might exist is a Win95 program that can mount and access
> > (read-only) Linux filesystems. Does anyone know if such a beast
> > exists?
> >
> > Frank
>
>
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From: "Nikita V. Youshchenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.kde
Subject: Re: Mandrake upgrade: terrible
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:27:23 +0300
> I ditched mandrake because this distro can not be upgrade.
> Each time a new version comes out you have to wipe out
> everything...upgrades never works 100%.
> MandrakeUpdate (for updading individual packages via the net)
> was the last straw when it bombed updating glibc...guess what
> happens when you have a broken glibc.
The only distro I've seen yet that REALLY DOES clean upgrades is Debian.
apt-get distupgrade, and all is done ... :-)
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