From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 30 11:41:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA21817 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 11:41:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (root@buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA21787 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 11:41:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA09588 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 14:43:44 -0500 Received: from buffnet5.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa14848; 30 Jan 96 14:45 EST Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 14:44:59 -0500 (EST) From: steve hovey To: Nate Williams cc: davidg@root.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mysterious reboots In-Reply-To: <199601301646.JAA12072@rocky.sri.MT.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 30 Jan 1996, Nate Williams wrote: > David Greenman writes: > > >We have a problem with two 2.1.0-RELEASE machines. One is a P5-100 with > > > > If it is possible, please upgrade to 2.1-stable. -stable contains code > > to detect stack overflows and panic more gracefully. It also has several > > important bugfixes which may or may not help your specific problem. > > Is there anything stopping us from creating a patch from 2.1R to > 2.1-stable as of today? It certainly would make it easier for a lot of > folks to get the new code, and also improve our public relations. > While there are problems - there are always problems. Anyone who has purchased one of the high prices unixes out there cannot complain about freebsd. Ive had many more problem with SCO than with freebsd, and much less help. Plus I have source with freebsd, so if nobody has an answer I can hack my own! All in all the creators of freebsd have done one hell of a wonderful job!