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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:6552 comp.os.386bsd.bugs:1721 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1389 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ee.und.ac.za!hippo.ru.ac.za!kudu!g89r4222 From: g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-1.0R] Epsilon -> Release patches - problems Message-ID: <g89r4222.752621131@kudu> Sender: news@hippo.ru.ac.za (Usenet News Admin) Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa References: <g89r4222.752427162@kudu> <NEWSSERV!STARK!GENE.93Nov4195907@stark.uucp> <JKH.93Nov5230902@whisker.lotus.ie> Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1993 21:25:31 GMT Lines: 40 In <JKH.93Nov5230902@whisker.lotus.ie> jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >In article <NEWSSERV!STARK!GENE.93Nov4195907@stark.uucp> newsserv!stark!gene@cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark) writes: > I installed the Epsilon to Release patches. You are right about the > patch -p1, I solved this problem by running the patches from /usr > rather than from /usr/src, but probably patch -p2 would have worked OK, > too. >I've fixed the doc to say `-p2' and also recommend that you back-up >your /etc directory before doing the `make world', then merge the two >accordingly before rebooting. This is a short-term solution until I >figure out which apps are whapping on user-configurable information in >/etc uninvited (I believe only uucp). My comments on "make world": In general it works well, only going as far as the install is a bit much for me to trust. I prefer to go through the output of the build to check for nasties, before jumping into the install. (I always hack the makefile before doing the make world.) I noticed that make world no longer clobbers /etc/localtime (that's a relief). The only files in /etc which seem to have been changed by make install are magic and mail.rc. Otherwise - 1.0R is up and running, and not giving any hassles - in fact working quite nicely. Disk performance seems to be up a bit - the dynamic buffer cache is very noticeable for small files (under 8M) - at least this is what I found with iozone. Now for some YP and shlibs ...... ;-) Geoff. -- ===========================csgr@alpha.ru.ac.za================================ Geoff Rehmet, Parallel Processing Group, | ____ _ o /\ Computer Science Department, | ___ _-\_<, /\/\/\ Rhodes University, RSA. | (*)/'(*) /\/\/\/\/\