Subject: Re: stability problems with NetBSD/sparc 1.3.2
To: Greg A. Woods <woods@most.weird.com>
From: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 10/22/1998 05:41:24
In a previous message, you said:

> [My machine crashes, but I don't know how to reproduce it, and I
> have no useful information about how it crashes.]

Now you're saying:

> [Doing `foo' is likely to crash the machine.]

This makes no sense.  If `foo' is likely to crash the machine, then it
sounds to me like you have a way to reproduce the problem, and you
should be able to get some information.

You could at least *try* to be helpful here.


Regarding rarpd, I asked a very specific question, and it would have
been nice if you had simply said:

  `Yes, I'm using the release version, and it doesn't add ARP
  entries.'

rather than writing a page of verbiage with *no* additional useful
content.  Supplying additional information is okay -- to an extent --
but if I have to wade through it to get to the answer I wanted, then
you're wasting my time and my inclination is to just punt.