Tired of meaningless errors from rsync, I’ve decided to pull the trigger on the upgrade to OpenBSD 3.8 for jane. I’ll be upgrading ender next week, so it’ll be good to do a dry run on a machine that doesn’t matter as much.

I downloaded the OpenBSD 3.8-Release i386 CD install image and booted it in the jane VMWare image.

The upgrade instructions are pretty straightforward. I’m not going to remove existing packages; I’ll just update them after the install.

Unfortunately, the upgrade process doesn’t seem to correctly load the network configuration from my existing installation. Though it makes an attempt to, the Ethernet interface, le1, isn’t configured.

A while back I recounted an error running rsync as a part of my qdb.pl backup script on ender. When I run the script manually, it runs fine, but when it runs as a cron job, it fails somewhat meaninglessly with:

rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12)

Recently, I recounted my experience installing and running my qdb.pl script on OpenBSD 3.7. Though the backup runs worked fine from the console, they failed strangely when run from crontab. I encountered the following error message from ender: