Subject: Re: sup / mail <[email-masked]>

From: "Chris G. Demetriou" <[email-masked]>

> I've getting erratic mail from sun-lamp
> and no sup for several days now.
> 
> whats up?

I've gotten several questions like this, which i've not yet had time
to respond to, yet, so hopefully this will kill most birds with one
stone...

There are several problems:
	(1) _SERIOUS_ network problems on the network that lamp's
		connected to.  (i.e. it's spent a good number of hours
		physically off the network)
	(2) a couple of software bugs, which will cause lamp to 'hang
		hard' every so often
	(3) the fact that there's nobody around to deal with lamp when
		it hangs.

It's quite possible that transient problems related to (1) are causing
at least some part of (2) -- we don't know, for sure, and there's
nobody local who can debug it.

We're looking for possible solutions to the problem; believe me, it's
more annoying to _us_ than it is to you.

chris