From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 8 20:50:47 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9274116A43A for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 20:50:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from yertle.kcilink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [65.205.34.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C63D43D1F for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 20:50:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from [192.168.7.103] (host-103.int.kcilink.com [192.168.7.103]) by yertle.kcilink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53FA7B80F for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 16:50:44 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v730) In-Reply-To: <200506082045.j58KjClF002589@fire.jhs.private> References: <200506082045.j58KjClF002589@fire.jhs.private> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=sha1; boundary=Apple-Mail-5-370206646; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature" Message-Id: <3CBDAA1E-17F6-46C0-A1AA-83F1F0BCD7BC@khera.org> From: Vivek Khera Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 16:50:43 -0400 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.730) X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4: Is it generally unstable? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 20:50:48 -0000 --Apple-Mail-5-370206646 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed On Jun 8, 2005, at 4:45 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > A few problems I've had include: > rdist works on 5.3 source host, but not from 5.4+amd64 > (yes, I'm sure someone's out there will work, but > Mine doesn't (user & su) & does with 5.3, which iis > all that maters to me :-) also rdist depends on > which of rdist & rdist6 & 44bsd-rdist, & which > protocol, & what version other end etc, which is > why I'd not mentioned till now, & yes I know rsync > works too, but I'm comfortable with rdist[6]) & > 5.3, not 5.4. > I don't think it has to do with amd64. rdist6 just plain refuses to use ssh when running as root, making it mostly useless for updating system files. it works just fine (amd64 and i386) on 5.4 as a regular user. Vivek Khera, Ph.D. +1-301-869-4449 x806 --Apple-Mail-5-370206646--