Xref: utzoo unix-pc.general:998 unix-pc.uucp:38 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!nuchat!flatline!erict From: erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,unix-pc.uucp Subject: Re: 3.51a keeps dying; even HDB is a mess; any ideas out there? Summary: Well, here's my soln. Message-ID: <1041@flatline.UUCP> Date: 5 Jul 88 00:16:21 GMT References: <422@kosman.UUCP> Organization: a flat near the Montrose, Houston, Tx. Lines: 39 In article <422@kosman.UUCP>, kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman) writes: > I am distressed because my machine keeps freezing on me. It seems pretty > clearly related to uucp traffic. Just about 15 minutes ago, it froze for > the first time while I was watching it. It was just at the end of an > incoming uucp call (my unix-pc feed, to be exact), and it left something > for cunbatch in /lost+found. This means that the freezing is costing me > dropped news, which is something I have suspected for some time. > What I'm looking for is some opinions from you folks who have been paying > attention. I want to know what configuration is the most reliable. I can > back off to 3.51 or even 3.50 kernel, I can play with uucp versions, I can Okedoke. I'm still running 3.0, and I *never* have uucico/uucp problems. Ever, ever ever. Well, I had them twice, actually, but once was because I was playing around with uucico and friends. Bad idea. :-) The one problem that I had was setgetty not finishing up %100. ie: the LCKs would be rm'd, but uucico wouldn't finish up and exit. More uucicos would start throughout the day, and not exit. So... I'd have about 8 uucicos, none of them talking on the line, and no LCK files. I killed all the uucicos, but that didn't help, the problem started again. So I rebooted, and that solved the problem. This is after about 1.5 years of unix-pc uptime and constant usage. Personally, I'd be %100 content with 3.0 if I could have the 3.5 development set and libraries (flexnames, real curses, etc), but.... An idea: run one machine as the "newsbox" with 3.0 and HDB (HDB under 3.0 is a godsend) and don't use it for much else. Rogue, maybe, and a few other things. :-) -- Skate UNIX or go home, boogie boy... J. Eric Townsend ->uunet!nuchat!flatline!erict smail:511Parker#2,Hstn,Tx,77007 ..!bellcore!tness1!/