Re: Is FreeBSD more secure than Windows NT or Windows 2000?

2001-07-21 Thread Jonathan Smith
> Thank you all for your generous info on encryption. Hmmm, now I don't > know what Microsoft actually meant when they advertised Windows NT, 2000 > was "Truly Secure"! It meant, believe us in all we say and do! Give us your money because you will believe whatever we say It's all "advertis

Re: installworld fails when installing perl

2000-08-27 Thread Jonathan Smith
Hmm, that's interesting. I cvsup'd at ~4AM yesterday, updated my source from my repos., did a buildworld, and just now did an installworld of it and I had no problems. -- Close your eyes. Now forget what you see. What do you feel? -- My heart. -- Come here. -- Your heart. -- See? We're e

Re: burncd...

2000-08-19 Thread Jonathan Smith
I had similar trouble, but can burn under windows (except 2k which is buggy) j. -- Close your eyes. Now forget what you see. What do you feel? -- My heart. -- Come here. -- Your heart. -- See? We're exactly the same. Jon Smith -- Senior Math Major @ Purdue On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, M

Re: buildkernel

2000-07-11 Thread Jonathan Smith
I think the purpose is to cause the kernel builds and installs to work right. I would HOPE everyone could agree on that as a "purpose." Some people have made suggestions such as, "if you're using the same system, (ie. the -RELEASE people), don't require a whole buildowrld..." Why not accept th

Re: Previous Message on /etc/defaults

2000-07-09 Thread Jonathan Smith
> My $0.02: I thinks it's a good idea for /etc/defaults/whatever to set the > defaults and then load any customizations for /etc/whatever. Personally, I > *like* having small /etc/whatever files with just my entries to worry about. > And if we call defaults from the /etc copy, you have to first h

Re: Previous Message on /etc/defaults

2000-07-09 Thread Jonathan Smith
I, personally, have no need of /etc/defaults and typically disable it, anyway. Since the whole thing is environment variables, why not make /etc/rc.conf and /etc/make.conf _include_ the ones in /etc/defaults (first thing in the file) (if they exist, obviously)? At which point, those of us who do

Re: HEADS UP: /etc/rc.shutdown calls local scripts now

2000-07-06 Thread Jonathan Smith
Personally, I've always LOVED simply setting options for the system in rc.conf and make.conf They are all listed, and I just change the ones I want. I hate haveing to look through LOTS of files for this that or the other config option. At the same time, I agree, it's a pain to go 'grep'n a

Re: Bad apache ports on stable 4.0

2000-06-28 Thread Jonathan Smith
CC'd to ports where it belongs. (Please respond only there as I don't think this is a -stable issue). I'd like to suggest they add this to the messages that says to hadd the handler lines, it certainly would have saved me grief -- and you. I had the same problems (and a few worse ones). To get