From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 28 01:15:03 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9009716A4CE for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 01:15:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from poros.telenet-ops.be (poros.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9241543FBD for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 01:15:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from n.b@myrealbox.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by poros.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with SMTP id 8CE682E68D8; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 10:15:01 +0100 (MET) Received: from cronos.home.vsb (d5153CAA6.kabel.telenet.be [81.83.202.166]) by poros.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6975C2E68CF; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 10:15:00 +0100 (MET) From: Guy Van Sanden To: JacobRhoden In-Reply-To: <200311280951.00243.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> References: <1069924680.2858.15.camel@cronos.home.vsb> <200311280951.00243.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1070010899.2859.10.camel@cronos.home.vsb> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 10:14:59 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.x downgrade recommendation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 09:15:03 -0000 I got some weird disklabel behavior, rpc.yppasswdd doesn't work and nfsd crashes on portscans/nessus-probes. That and a lot of system instability. I don't have to reboot daily, but the box has never passed 20 days uptime. Prior to yesterdays reboot, it was up 11 days, which seems to be about my average. I used to run FreeBSD 4.6 (before moving to 5), and it never showed a sign of instability, with uptimes going from 30 to 90 days (I rarely get more because my power grid becomes unstable during thunder or wind-stroms, so I shut down all machines during those). On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 23:51, JacobRhoden wrote: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 08:18 pm, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > > I'm now considering if I will do the upgrade to 5.2-RELEASE, or > > reinstall the system with 4.9 or 4.10. > > The 5.x branch seems to remain rather unstable longer then I had > > anticipated. > > Are you actually having problems running 5.1-RELEASE? I would only bother if > there is some bug which is causing problems. I run 5.1-RELEASE and it works > fine and dandy with no particularly bad problems (: > > > What would you guys recommend, wait out for 5.3 (which is supposed to be > > 4.x-like stable), or move back to 4.9 (or 4.10 soon). > > ______________________________ > JacobRhoden -- http://rhoden.id.au/ -- ______________________________________________________________________ Guy Van Sanden http://unixmafia.port5.com Registered Linux user #249404 - September 1997 ______________________________________________________________________