From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 3 19:36:42 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA29828 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 19:36:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sand2.sentex.ca (sand2.sentex.ca [209.167.248.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA29809 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 19:36:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from gravel (ospf-wat.sentex.net [209.167.248.81]) by sand2.sentex.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA19045; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 22:36:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <4.1.19990203224002.057d9b60@granite.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtancsa@granite.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 22:43:21 -0500 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: 3.0 stable Cc: BSD-Stable In-Reply-To: <37717.918098033@zippy.cdrom.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:13 PM 2/3/99 , Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> sorry about this stupid question, but i heard that 3.0 stable are not so >> stable as 2.2.8 .... >not made any of my systems less stable, I can say that much, and much >of what has been touted as "instability" lately has more to do with >people upgrading from /usr/src and running over all the bumps of >trying to transition an a.out system to an ELF one in developer mode >with no seat belts. Those that do binary upgrades from, or (more >recommended) clean installations of 3.1 will not suffer from those >problems. Is there an easy way to find out if there are still some a.out libs or binaries on a machine that has been 'transitioned' ? One of my SMP machines during heavy load is rebooting without any warning. In other words, is there a reccomended audit I could do on the machine to make sure the a.out-elf transition was done properly ? It started out as a 3.0 STABLE box from Dec. ---Mike ********************************************************************** Mike Tancsa, Network Admin * mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications Corp, * http://www.sentex.net/mike Cambridge, Ontario * 01.519.651.3400 Canada * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message