From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 3 12:50:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA28625 for stable-outgoing; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 12:50:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from haven.uniserve.com (haven.uniserve.com [198.53.215.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA28618 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 12:50:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by haven.uniserve.com id <30753-2>; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 12:52:57 -0000 Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 12:52:52 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius To: Kim Culhan cc: Richard Wackerbarth , stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sup is broken? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-stable@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 3 Feb 1996, Kim Culhan wrote: > On Sat, 3 Feb 1996, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > > > >On Sat, 3 Feb 1996, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > > > > > >> >I have been trying for many hours to sup -stable and am becoming > > >> >convinced it is not possible. > > > > > >> I would recommend that EVERYONE interested in -stable use ctm rather > > >>than sup. > > > > > >Where are the instructions located on how to setup ctm? > > > > If the sup server isn't going to work anymore, why don't you remove all > references to it including the FAQ etc ? I think Richard is being overly dramtic. sup is still pretty good way of getting updates, and still being supported. > It used to work fine, now it doesn't. I guess this is just a load factor.. There is also sup2.freebsd.org > If it is a matter of load, who is able to use it to generate that load > and why can't I operate in that mode? Run "sup" in an infinite loop for a few days. Eventually, you will get a slot. (This is a bad thing, BTW) > > regards > kim > > -- > kimc@w8hd.org > Tom