From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 2 9:49: 3 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3926F37B401 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 09:49:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-13.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2914643F75 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 09:49:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h22HmwrX014129; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 12:48:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E62440A.4010001@potentialtech.com> Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 12:48:58 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Cc: Jim Mock , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The web-based bug interface is currently disabled. References: <20030302162206.66969.qmail@web13404.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030302162206.66969.qmail@web13404.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: >>No, FreeBSD dislikes moronic skript kiddies spamming >>the PR database. > > OK, I'm screwed :(. It's difficult to find committers > interested in my ports (math/cad stuff) anyway. I > guess I'll just keep'em for myself for some more time. Or you could consider helping find a way to re-enable the www to send-pr while preventing script kiddies from abusing it. >>So? Set your EDITOR environment variable to >>whatever you prefer and >>you won't have to deal with vi. > > I tried that with pico some years ago, but the result > was not nice. Well, I can't speak for pico, but I've done this with ee with great success. > Anyway, it's not even an option since I've been unable > to set up ppp properly. It connects fine but it > doesn't resolv any address, and I have "enable dns" > set on ppp.conf You could always ask the list for help. It's very possible that your ISP doesn't provide DNS information via DHCP. I've got some clients who's ISPs haven't fully figured out how to use DHCP yet. What are the contents of /etc/resolv.conf? You can always get the DNS info from your ISP and enter it manually. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message