Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 05:21:41 -0400 From: Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net> To: spidaman@well.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: specifying alternate sup servers? Message-ID: <31F73CA5.4C59@ime.net> References: <31F6FB29.51CE@gamespot.com>
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Ian Kallen wrote:
>
> It's not in the man page. It's not in the README that lists alternate
> servers. sup.freebsd.org is giving me a bunch of messages like this:
>
> SUP: Invalid message count -1
> SUP: Error in receiving bin/ed/test/l.d
> SUP: Upgrade of src-bin-stable aborted at Jul 24 21:17:13 1996
> SUP: Aborted
>
> and this:
>
> SUP Fileserver 9.13 (4.3 BSD) 14373 on freefall.FreeBSD.org at 21:19:11
> SUP Fileserver supports compression.
> SUP Fileserver is currently busy
> SUP: Will retry in 235 seconds
> SUP Fileserver 9.13 (4.3 BSD) 14648 on freefall.FreeBSD.org at 21:23:06
> SUP Fileserver supports compression.
> SUP Fileserver is currently busy
> SUP: Will retry in 416 seconds
>
> which is just great, I'm gonna be here all night trying to get this
> upgrade through...
> I don't have a bandwidth constraint here, I'm T1'd out. I've got 9
> hops (including four sluggish ones in CRL's network) between me and
> sup.freebsd.org -- I need some help, I've been at work 12 hours now
> and I'd like to go home and see my family ... :{
> How _does_ one specify an alternate sup server?
I don't know for sure I don't do sup, But I would imagine that
you change the host=sup.FreeBSD.org part in your Supfile.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
-Enjoy
Gary
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