Do i need to DL beta 9 to use samba 2.2.7a?
Or is there a way i and DL just samba and upgrade from 2.2.0?

Thanks,

I don't know if you have to download Slack 9 for samba 2.2.7a to work, but if you don't and are just looking to upgrade your samba 2.2.0 you can use the upgradepkg tool:

upgradepkg <old2.2.0package>%<new2.2.7apackage>

You would first download the new samba 2.2.7 package, then run the upgradepkg command. You would type the above line as root and use the correct paths and filenames without the <>'s as well. The % should be there though. This will remove the old package and install the new one.

However, the packages must be Slackpacks--packages with .tgz file extensions and not tar.gz or tar.bz2 or anything else--otherwise upgradepkg won't work as far as I know.

Look for the Slackpack for samba 2.2.7a at www.linuxpackages.net and you should find it there if it's packaged for Slackware. You also might want to read the documentation for the samba 2.2.7a to make sure you don't need Slackware 9 or whatever just in case.

Hope this helps.

Thanks, got the package i will try to install it tonight.
Do you know where to DL beta 9 at, i looked around but only found 8.1, which is what i have.

Thanks

ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar...kware-current/

that's the location it can be downloaded from ; maybe there
are mirrors, but i have not seen any mention of any.

good luck ; when i tried the server was full :\

Just a word of caution...
If you are running Slack 8.1 or earlier, and are upgrading packages from the Slackware-current tree, it would be wise to upgrade glibc-solibs, and pkgtools from the Slack-current tree first...before any other packages.

hmm... DaOne - I have seen your name somewhere...
maybe you are the same.

And where might that be???

Finlay, this is really good advice here. I would definitely do this first. Sorry I didn't think to mention it earlier.

What do i have to DL and what commands do i use to upgrade the glibc-solibs and pkgtools?

Do i have to put packages in a certain dir before i unzip or install them?

Thanks,

I would go to www.slackware.com and check out the packages that come with Slackware-current. Find out the exact names of the packages mentioned by DaOne, write them down. Go to www.linuxpackages.net and find the packages. Just click the link and choose to save it. It will download to your /home/username directory. From there, since it will be in .tgz format, you can run pkgtool as root. Go to a command line, cd to your /home/username directory and you should see your downloads with "ls". Do the following:

su -m (this will let you su to root without changing directories)

then, type what I said in my first post with upgradepkg. That should be all you have to do.

I will do that this evening, thanks.

Now for a newb question (as i am one)

Is there a command or file, or some way. for me to check to see what servers/services are running? For example, mail servers, apache, samba. instead of doing a status on each of those individually, can i do a global status. Something like looking in the services on Win2k/xp and see what is running.

Thanks,

Type ps -a in a command line. It should show you all running processes. There might be another option than -a, but I can't think of it right now. Check the ps man page: man ps as it will give you a list of all the options and their meanings. I remember seeing another thread somewhere here providing ps -a plus another letter so a look at the man page will probably help you out better. I'm not at my Linux box right now so I can't look it up unfortunately.