Re: [HEADSUP] making /bin/sh the default shell for root

2021-09-23 Thread Mike Bristow
use they won't be used to the magic config. I have no problem with a section of root's .profile having the approprate magic commented out so that folk who want this can easily have it, of course. Cheers, Mike -- Mike Bristow m...@urgle.com

Re: help! 5.1 doesn't do the rc thing?

2003-08-07 Thread Mike Bristow
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:49:00AM -0700, Charlie Schluting wrote: > Yes, of course :) > That's why I'm perplexed. I let it install the files it wanted to, > except for obvious things I didn't want overwritten: passwd file, > sendmail config, etc. > > Just to verify: my old rc.conf should be read

Re: Problem pulling particular directory from CVS

2002-11-29 Thread Mike Bristow
On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 11:34 pm, Paul A. Scott wrote: Oh, #$%@. I'm so embarrassed. My terminal session was logged into Mac OSX not FreeBSD, and I had mirrored the same directory structure, so I faked myself out. Bottom line is, cvs on Freebsd works like a champ. The cvs on MacOSX

Re: uucp user shell and home directory

2001-10-04 Thread Mike Bristow
port it's removal, because I think that software that is used by a tiny fraction of the userbase (and I suspect that uucp fits into that catagory) should be removed from the "core" distribution, and made into a seperate package; provided that obtaining the package and integrating it

Re: ** HEADS UP **

2001-03-19 Thread Mike Bristow
will make dhclient DTRT when ifconfig ing the interface. Of course, that means that you're forcing the interface to be 100meg (which won't work when you plug your laptop in $CLIENT's 10 meg hub) -- Mike Bristow, seebitwopie To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: SB Live (or RAM parity?) crash on today's -CURRENT

2000-07-14 Thread Mike Bristow
ECC ram. If you need more, let me know and I'll give you what you need... -- Mike Bristow, seebitwopie To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: ports /work/ directory.

2000-06-16 Thread Mike Bristow
PREFIX=/usr/ports/`hostname` or WRKDIRPREFIX=/disks/big-fast-disk/ports-build as approprate -- Mike Bristow, seebitwopie To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libstand ext2fs

2000-05-02 Thread Mike Bristow
adequate. :) > > Hmm. Failure to chroot == failure to start init? If Linux emulation is non modular, what happens if /sbin/init is a linux binary? I admit to being tempted to find out exactly how good Linux emulation is... -- Mike Bristow, seebitwopie To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EM

Re: Make world problems

2000-02-01 Thread Mike Bristow
ions _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING options _KPOSIX_VERSION=199309L in your kernel config. -- Mike Bristow, Geek At Large ``Beware of Invisible Cows'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Neat little DPT utils...

2000-01-24 Thread Mike Bristow
I somewhat overestimated my abilities and underestimated my workload. >From mails exchanged some time ago, Simon Shapiro (sp?) the original author said, IIRC, that he had fixing those utils on his to-do list - but not at the top :( -- Mike Bristow, Geek At Large ``Beware of Invisible