I must have had a bad upgrade on one of the early 5.2 upgrades --- ifconfig
didn't understand the new /proc/net/dev format. I just tried it on a recent
5.2 running 2.1.131 and it worked.
| > mkswap/swapon, and several other things are outdated.
| <griffon>KeyserSoze-ttyp2[97]~$ rpm -qf `which swapon`
| mount-2.8a-2
| - Mount 2.7l ; mount --version
+--->8
Documentation/Changes is out of date, I think --- recent 2.1 and 2.0.36 both
support >128M swap areas, but mkswap won't have anything to do with them.
| > /etc/nsswitch.conf misbehaves in 2.1+.
| Don't have any experience, positive or negative, with this
+--->8
Usually reported as "tar is really slow" (on one of our boxes, it's
mentioned in /etc/motd as "tar is broken. use /root/atar" --- I recently
fixed nsswitch.conf on that box and changed the motd...).
(snurgle.org --- you're one of my HH D level nightmares, right? :-)
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brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
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