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From: mycroft@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: PROBLEM WITH RUP, UPTIME, DF, AND OTHER SYSTEM STATISTICS
Date: 28 Aug 1993 15:16:51 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In-reply-to: buhrow@cats.ucsc.edu's message of 28 Aug 1993 02:16:29 GMT


In article <25mf5tINN5r3@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> buhrow@cats.ucsc.edu
(Brian Buhrow) writes:

   I'm running NetBSD 0.9 as taken from the tar_files on
   NetBSD-current on sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu and compiled up for
   use.

The INSTALL_NOTES *specifically* say that you must upgrade your
executables from the binary distribution.  While this is not strictly
true, upgrading via source is much more complicated and prone to
error.