2001-Jan-19

Uptime for my New Jersey, qwest-colocated, internet.com, NetBSD 1.4.2, HP Netserver box is now 148 days (and easily handled a couple slashdots). (148 days ago another Linux/Solaris admin turned off the only networking interface when he was trying to just turn off an alias.) (On a side note, my Debian 2.1 Linux web/dns/mail server in Lake Stevens is now at 453 days!) Speaking of uptime -- it doesn't mean anything if box isn't doing anything: I have been really disappointed by the level of service ("We are having router problems at qwest") the qwest facility offers. As far as I can tell, it is no better and a lot cheaper (2007 revision: I think I meant more expensive) than my GTE/Verizon DSL. (Having said that: I do not like GTE/Verizon either.)

send-pr both of my buffer overflow finds: gzip and telnet/tn3270.

Installed 1.5 from scratch (first time for 1.5). Used boot floppy and ftp install. The sysinst menu worked good. By the way, this is for my "Linux" class I am teaching :) Couldn't figure out the mouse: I used /dev/pms0 and X11 pointer protocol "BusMouse"; then I realized that kernel found an intellimouse. It worked with /dev/pmsi0 and "wsmouse" protocol.

Also worked on installing KDE2 from http://www.nthcliff.demon.co.uk/NetBSD/KDE2/. It uses a different libtool, which I had to manually fetch and put into my second distfiles. Then it got confused, because of my conflicting (existing) libtool. So I did a pkg_delete, but it didn't work. Then a pkg_info worked, but couldn't output +COMMENTS and another file. (I should have saved the error messages!) I deleted the previous libtool directory from /var/db/pkg/. KDE2 is now building...