Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 10:31:43 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: pstewart <pstewart@oncomdis.on.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: current questions Message-ID: <19980225103143.51071@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.93.980224182613.9785A-100000@oncomdis.on.ca>; from pstewart on Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 06:30:30PM -0500 References: <Pine.LNX.3.93.980224182613.9785A-100000@oncomdis.on.ca>
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On Tue, 24 February 1998 at 18:30:30 -0500, pstewart wrote: > HI there... > > We are looking at setting up a series of new series based on the CURRENT > series. A few questions... > > A gentleman replied to me indicating that CURRENT supports usernames > longer than 8 characters? Yes, FreeBSD-current supports long identifiers. > Anyone have any good/bad experiences with this? Not I--I don't use them. > Is this right out of the box or is there a special series of steps > to go through? What are the steps if needed? :) I'm pretty sure it's out of the box. > Also, a really dumb RTFM question I'm sure.... how and where do I obtain a > CURRENT boot disk? I've tried via a STABLE boot disk and not sure what to > do.... Get it from somehere like ftp://<ftpsite>/pub/FreeBSD/3.0-971225-SNAP/floppies/boot.flp. Find a good <ftpsite> in the online handbook. > Finally, we are looking at a CURRENT machine for a POP3/sendmail server > only, also a shell access machine, a personal web pages server (dedicated > to that task). Will I run into problems (loaded questions I know) with > the CURRENT release? Maybe. At the moment, some significant changes are being made to the virtual memory and block device subsystems. Jordan was going to make a new snapshot round about now, but after nearly a week when we couldn't even 'make world', he has postponed it. And remember that we *strongly* discourage using -CURRENT in a production environment. > Where/how do I track the problems/resolutions? Subscribe to FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org. If you have problems, first try to fix them yourself. If you can't, send a message to the list. The people on -CURRENT aren't particularly aggressive, but you can easily get them annoyed by not doing your homework first. Remember, it's a developer's group. > The big reason for us upgrading to CURRENT versus STABLE is for long > username support which we need BADLY...:) I wonder if it's going to be worth it. You might like to check out http://www.lemis.com/staying-current, and also read the chapter about -CURRENT in "The Complete FreeBSD", second edition (http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/bsdbook2.htm). Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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