From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 9 09:32:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA18590 for stable-outgoing; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 09:32:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vinyl.quickweb.com (vinyl.quickweb.com [206.222.77.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA18584 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 09:32:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mark@localhost) by vinyl.quickweb.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) id MAA10370; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 12:32:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19970909123253.13741@vinyl.quickweb.com> Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 12:32:53 -0400 From: Mark Mayo To: John Kelly Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.5 release, can it be postponed? References: <341565dd.68501361@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <341565dd.68501361@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net>; from John Kelly on Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 03:14:51PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 03:14:51PM +0000, John Kelly wrote: > Recent changes to user PPP have put it in an unusable state for me. > Although it's true that kernel PPPD works fine, user PPP is a highly > visible piece of the system since so many people are likely to use it. > > I hope that you wait until 2.2 is more stable before cutting the 2.2.5 > release. I wouldn't want a CD where user PPP is not working right. User PPP works right... just "differently" than before. A specific reference to the different behaviour should be noted on the CD of course, but I think userland PPP is quite stable and working better than ever. When I unwittingly ran the new PPP for the first time, it exited with the "must be user ID 0" thing, after which I quickly man'ed PPP and read about the new behaviour. It would be nice to add "... user ID 0 (root)" to the error message though, since there might be newbies that don't equate userid 0 to the root login... cya, -Mark > > John > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com RingZero Comp. http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark finger mark@quickweb.com for my PGP key and GCS code ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The newest book, The Dilbert Future, took a broader view, describing how idiots will threaten every aspect of business, technology and society in the future." --Scott Adams