From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 6 07:07:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA23835 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 07:07:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from Kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA23814 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 07:07:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from Mailbox.mcs.com (Mailbox.mcs.com [192.160.127.87]) by Kitten.mcs.com (8.8.2/8.8.Beta.3) with ESMTP id JAA28613; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 09:04:49 -0600 (CST) Received: from Mercury.mcs.net (karl@Mercury.mcs.com [192.160.127.80]) by Mailbox.mcs.com (8.8.2/8.8.2) with ESMTP id JAA06479; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 09:04:46 -0600 (CST) Received: (from karl@localhost) by Mercury.mcs.net (8.8.2/8.8.2) id JAA07519; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 09:04:45 -0600 (CST) From: Karl Denninger Message-Id: <199611061504.JAA07519@Mercury.mcs.net> Subject: Re: SUP on sup.freebsd.org To: gene@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark) Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 09:04:45 -0600 (CST) Cc: root@implode.root.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org, jkh@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199611061121.GAA20346@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> from "Gene Stark" at Nov 6, 96 06:21:34 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > David Greenman wrote: > > >point the service will be discontinued completely. So please switch to > >using CVSup. It has much lighter network load and is quite a bit faster > >as well. > > Thanks, and sorry for the short notice, but the load problem had reached > >critical and something had to be done immediately. > > I can well sympathize with the need to do something about your network > load problems, but I just tried (unsuccessfully) to build CVSup and I have > the following *major* complaints, which I hope you will consider: Uh, does this mean its down as of *NOW*? Blargh. Ok, where does one get a copy of CVSup that *doesn't* require that I build other things (ie: is pre-packaged, including the Modula 3 port required)? -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity http://www.mcs.net/~karl | T1's from $600 monthly to FULL DS-3 Service | 32 Analog Prefixes, 13 ISDN, Web servers $75/mo Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| Email to "info@mcs.net" WWW: http://www.mcs.net/ Fax: [+1 312 248-9865] | 2 FULL DS-3 Internet links; 400Mbps B/W Internal