Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 10:14:59 +0100 From: Guy Van Sanden <n.b@myrealbox.com> To: JacobRhoden <jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.x downgrade recommendation Message-ID: <1070010899.2859.10.camel@cronos.home.vsb> In-Reply-To: <200311280951.00243.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> References: <1069924680.2858.15.camel@cronos.home.vsb> <200311280951.00243.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au>
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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 ______________________________________________________________________
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