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In article <1993Jan12.225720.10723@serveme.chi.il.us> greg@serveme.chi.il.us (Gregory Gulik) writes:
>In article <C0r2oG.43o@ddsw1.mcs.com> karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger) writes:
>>
>>Yeah, its known as "you're running a Sun -- so reboot the bastard"
>> 
>>Suns are notorious, and have been for years, for getting their brains
>>scrambled.  It is only recently that they've >begun< to clean up their act
>>in the OS support area (ie: NIS, NFS, etc).  It still doesn't work quite
>>right.
>
>yeah, but they still say that about Intel x86 based Unix systems.  8^)
>
>Actually, serveve, a Sun-3/60 running SunOS 4.1.1 is quite stable
>and only needs to be rebooted when it needs to be powered down,
>but not to fix something getting "scrambled".

You don't push serveme hard enough on the network.

There's something about IP and Suns.  For all the ballyho about "the network
is the computer" these things get mightily upset if you actually try to USE
them that way.

I love Sun's "patch of the hour" club; their "jumbo" patches are quite a
treat.  If you have ever run a large network of Suns, trying to do things
that would seem natural (anyone can sign on from anywhere, automounting
resources, etc) you find that the stability of their entire package leaves
something to be desired.

>>BTW, what does CLOUT need NIS for if its one machine?
>
>Good question.  We'll let you know when we find out.

Yeah.  It seems rather, uh, insane to run NIS unless there is more than
one machine sharing UIDs on Ethernet in the clout "family".

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