On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Chris Gilbert wrote:

>You do need lots of space though, somewhere in the region of 200MB I
>think, depending on what you compile.  I plan to get the new current
>source soon, but haven't had time, when I do I'll do an updated guide, 
>I hopefully will get sup running along with pppd (any hints?)  Anyone
>know a sup server in the uk? co.uk or ac.uk?

sup.netbsd.org works for me - i recommend the compress option tho ;-)

>I hope that some of the problems in the present makefiles are gone :)

you should really send-pr, it's garanteed to get to the right person then.

>Something I did miss off the guide as it's more a system management
>problem is that lo0 didn't ifconfig with the new /etc files, cure was to
>make a file called /etc/ifconfig.lo0 and put 'inet localhost' into it. 
>(may not be right but it works :)

this didn't happen when i upgraded my /etc about a wek and a half ago, so
it's fixed in the tree. (but /etc/security get confused with -username
ignore-in-the-nis-maps entrys in /etc/passwd guess i'll be finding out how
to send-pr too.)

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