Oh, man, that's going to get UGLY if we have to check the details of the release and say, 'Sorry, this version of FreeBSD doesn't run ntop'.
What's you feelings about using the LinuxThreads port?? -----Burton -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stanley Hopcroft Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 8:56 PM To: Burton M. Strauss III Cc: Ntop-Dev; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Ntop-dev] Re: R66TXWB (FreeBSD web server death) Dear Sir, I am writing to thank you for your letter and say, On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 06:53:39PM -0500, Burton M. Strauss III wrote: > It's a bug with stale file descriptions (reuse). Oh ghu.... > congratulations and thanks for tracking this down. > > According to the PR 51535 log, the fix was committed to 4.8 on Tue Jun 3 > 07:09:39 PDT 2003, which is after the release date of the 4.8-RELEASE-p1 > that Stanley is using. 4.8-RELEASE-p3 was released this month (about a week > after -p2 apparently), and it should have the fix. > Unfortunately, that may not be the case. IIRC, the RELEASE branch is only patched for security problems (-p3 is the sendmail bug in Sendmail 8.12.x), and not for problems/bug fixes (unless they are security related). Therefore, the only prospect of FreeBSD users getting the fixed code is for them to run the 'Stable' branch (RELENG-4) to which are committed all . bug fixes . merged code from the CURRENT (ie 5.x) branch . as well as the security fixes applied to the RELEASE branch Stable means 'from a stable code base' rather than describing the operation of a particular release (from the CVS). Bugs in the PAE merges have recently made the operation of the 'Stable' branch to be less than the name suggests. The maximum safety branch is RELEASE; the maximal bug fix branch is (eventually) STABLE. I think the usual recommendation is that folks run RELEASE or a 'known to be good' release of STABLE. What 'known to be good' means depends on what you want. In my case, with distributed ntop monitors, stability is paramount, so I don't run STABLE .... although I have. Thanks again. Yours sincerely. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stanley Hopcroft ------------------------------------------------------------------------ '...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...' from Meditation 17, J Donne. _______________________________________________ Ntop-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-dev _______________________________________________ Ntop-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-dev
