[OpenIndiana-discuss] oi_151a update?

[Daniel Kjar]

Any idea why one of my machines would see the update while the other 
does not?  The one not seeing the updates is a pure 151a install and 
normally does see updates when they are available (unlike the crusty one 
that saw the update).
On 02/15/12 10:58 AM, Gary Gendel wrote:
> On 2/15/12 10:44 AM, Jeppe Toustrup wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 16:11, Gary Gendel<gary at genashor.com>  wrote:
>>> On 2/15/12 10:03 AM, Daniel Kjar wrote:
>>>> successfully updated as well.  Fonts do seem much sharper.  Very nice.
>>>>   Still have this funkiness where if I reboot (even without an 
>>>> update) the
>>>> system kernel panics right before or as X is loading, system 
>>>> restarts and
>>>> then boots up fine.  I suspect hardware issues though.  Strangely 
>>>> enough ssh
>>>> handshake with my other servers seems much faster now so something 
>>>> seems to
>>>> be working better in the guts as well.  This is a very crusty install
>>>> (originally opensolaris and updated repeatedly a very early version 
>>>> of that
>>>> as well) so I am never surprised at wackiness.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for every ones hard work on this.  Excellent job.  My main 
>>>> server
>>>> will be moving to OI from Solaris this summer.
>>>>
>>> My ssh handshake was also much faster initially, but it didn't 
>>> keep.  It's a
>>> strange situation where sometimes I get the login prompt 
>>> immediately, and
>>> sometimes it takes several seconds.  It's acting like sometimes it 
>>> gets held
>>> on network timeout and sometimes there is none.  I thought it might 
>>> have
>>> been due to DNS lookups but I shut the ssh name resolution checks 
>>> down in
>>> the configuration without a difference.  It's frustrating since 
>>> every time I
>>> think I've resolved it it's only behaving nice for a short while.
>>>
>>> Gary
>> I usually disable GSS-API authentication in /etc/ssh/sshd_config in
>> order to make login times faster. It can be disabled by adding the
>> following line and restarting sshd afterwards:
>>
>> GSSAPIAuthentication no
>
> Thanks.  It's fast now and I've re-enabled Reverse Mapping 
> verification.  With luck it will stay that way. :)
>
> Gary
>
>
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