Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 15:38:17 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: some performance issues Message-ID: <386FE169.F39CCFF9@3-cities.com> References: <386C023E.680FC31@inna.net> <386C0676.F39EC477@3-cities.com> <386C2354.ABD1ED54@nwlink.com> <386C3173.1D695393@3-cities.com> <386C543D.6E59C9DF@nwlink.com> <19991231104441.C2609@emu.sourcee.com> <386CE8AB.29A140B5@nwlink.com> <386CF9DC.B71A9887@3-cities.com> <386D3D3C.C92D02A3@nwlink.com> <386D5C88.B8257D45@3-cities.com> <386D8ABD.C2894A91@nwlink.com> <386D9271.C3B7DD95@3-cities.com> <386F2582.E5910672@nwlink.com> <386F9EA4.66B1B919@3-cities.com> <386FCECB.894E4548@nwlink.com>
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R Joseph Wright wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Happy New Year (why am I sitting at this computer 8-) )! > > > > > > > > Well, if it makes you feel better, there are two of us doing the same > > > > thing. I hit my first 2000 problem. I wanted to do an update from > > > > today's Stock Market with Quicken 99 and I suddenly had 3 accounts > > > > that were each worth $10-40M US. Something overflowed. The smallest > > > > account was the one that jumped to $40M. The system was quickly > > > > restored from the last backup and now I'm installing Quicken 2000. > > > > People believe stuff like this. All I could do was chuckle. It is also > > > > the first time I ran Quicken since I upgraded to Windows 2000 gold. > > > > > > I just had my first y2k problem too. After eating too much celebratory > > > ben&jerry's ice cream last night, I proceeded to delete the contents of > > > my /usr/bin directory. I tried a number of things like just going in to > > > /usr/src/usr.bin and doing 'make'. I didn't have 'make' anymore. > > > Luckily, I had an unused partition on my hard drive. I decided to > > > install a 4.0 snapshot from a cdrom onto it. From there, I mounted my > > > -STABLE /usr and copied the contents from the 4.0 /usr/bin into the > > > -STABLE. Then I rebooted the -STABLE, and tried to remake the /usr/bin > > > directory again using the -STABLE sources. I got an error message that > > > said something like "This isn't NetBSD. You lose!" I thought that was > > > cruel. > > > > Think of it as shock therapy. You were trying something that was > > really a bad idea and they wanted to wake you up :). > > > > Why is it a bad idea to remake that directory? It seemed like a much > quicker way to fix the system than to make world all over again. We are out of synce on when to deal with the directory. The 4.0 bin was the bad idea. Think of all of the other directories in your path and you have to make each one of them too. /usr/bin isn't the only place that is important. If you world was a recent stable cvsup, then all you might have been able to get away with doing an installworld. Otherwise what you did was probably enough. Kent > Joseph > > -- > > Kent Stewart > > Richland, WA > > > > mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com > > http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html > > FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ > > > > SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME > > http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ > > > > Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR > > http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html > > -- > Best Regards, Joseph > > You will do foolish things, > but do them with enthusiasm. Colette. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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