hi all!

i've got some ponderances about a couple things regarding
6.0 updates....

 - sh.hpbin.sys.  in every case, i've had to alter the
nmstack to 40 million.  i seem to remember <someone> saying
the stack for the shell was going to be 'fixed' in 6.0.
(why 40 million?  that's the number i used for the shell
under 5.5....and that number was recommended
by...umm...errr...someone on the list, i think.  doesn't
really matter, other than i know that with that size stack
our java app will work.)

 - back-dating of software.  also, in every case, i've had
to reapply java because the version of java on the 6.0 tape
was considerably older than what we were actually running.
i haven't checked samba or apache....but i suspect they're
in about the same state.  i think the os update process
needs to be 'smartened up'  (is smartened a word? :-) to not
back-date software like java, apache or samba.

any thoughts?

(btw, took my 995 up to 6.0pp2 (plus reactive patches) over
the weekend.  done in 6 hours!  pretty good i think....since
most of that was waiting on the system to boot
:-)              - d

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