[1250] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Linux-1.3.36
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter K)
Fri Oct 27 06:02:34 1995
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 12:11:51 +0200 (GMT+0200)
From: Peter K <pko@paradigm.co.za>
To: Linus Torvalds <Linus.Torvalds@cs.Helsinki.FI>
cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-alpha@vger.rutgers.edu,
linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199510241408.QAA25089@keos.cs.Helsinki.FI>
On Tue, 24 Oct 1995, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ok, Alan and I cleverly hid a extraneous line in the 1.3.36 linux kernel
> sources, just to check how alert you beta testers actually are. I'm sad
> to say that you don't seem to be very alert at all.. We had to fix it
> all by ourselves.
Hmmm, sad it is.
The way this bug manifested itself on my box was that I could not print
remotely to a Novell box running an lpd (in fact, it screwed up the lpd
so totally that the vlms crashed !). Yet telnet, rlogin, rcp, ftp, www,
etc, ran fine.
Peter Kooiman | Fax : ++27-12-663-4191/2
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