From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 13 10:51:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA07429 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 10:51:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA07405 Sat, 13 Jan 1996 10:51:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id TAA09983; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 19:51:42 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA11042; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 19:51:42 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id TAA00674; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 19:30:58 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601131830.TAA00674@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: FBSD 2.1 To: gcrutchr@nightflight.com (Gary Crutcher) Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 19:30:57 +0100 (MET) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <2.2.16.19960113091004.31f71ce2@nightflight.com> from "Gary Crutcher" at Jan 13, 96 09:04:39 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As Gary Crutcher wrote: > > I commented it out of my kernel configuration. The only other thing that > happened was that the services file got truncated to 5 entries. What a > surprise when telnet and Popper were not working! Hmm, i've also heard this from somebody else. Maybe it's a problem with cpio refusing to copy an older/newer/whatever file, Jordan? The /etc/services in question is that one from sysinstall, it's supposed to be overwritten with the right one during installation of the bindist. (The only hint i've got from somebody else is that his machine might have had an entirely corrupted system date. I think cpio is looking at the file date?) > I guess the install also updated my mt program, but I cannot get the > 'retension' command to work. I get an unknown command error. Is there an > update to this, as I have seen E-mail about this command posted? retension? This is in FreeBSD-current, not 2.1. And of course, you don't only need a new mt(1), but also an updated kernel for it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)