From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 19 14:52:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA23893 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 14:52:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from garlic.acadiau.ca (garlic.acadiau.ca [131.162.2.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA23858 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 14:52:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@acadiau.ca) Received: from iceberg (iceberg [131.162.2.91]) by garlic.acadiau.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA08408; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 18:51:12 -0300 (ADT) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 18:51:10 -0300 (ADT) From: Marc Fournier X-Sender: marc@iceberg To: John Birrell cc: eculp@webwizard.org.mx, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: paranoid question: aout vs ELF... In-Reply-To: <199810192108.HAA21106@cimlogic.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, John Birrell wrote: > Marc Fournier wrote: > > Okay, then that makes me *really* nervous...does the following sound safe? > [...] > > I'm still running a 3.0-CURRENT machine as of July 24th or so...its a > > production machine, and its half a country away, so I'm very nervous... > > Please don't do source-level upgrades of production machines, particularly > ones that are "half a country away". This is just asking for trouble. Unless you can suggestion something else, I don't have much choice in this matter :( My history file for news is at ~700Meg, and expire won't work because it can't allocate memory due to a hard limit in my kernel.. :( Trust me, this isn't something that I really want to be doing :( Marc G. Fournier marc.fournier@acadiau.ca Systems Administrator, Acadia University "These are my opinions, which are not necessarily shared by my employer" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message