From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Oct 19 12:27:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE (r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4685F37B407; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 12:27:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE (relay2.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.1]) by r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE (8.10.1/8.11.3-2) with ESMTP id f9JJRmj11768; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 21:27:48 +0200 (MEST) Received: from kawoserv.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (root@kawoserv.kawo2.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.180.1]) by r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE (8.10.1/8.11.3/6) with ESMTP id f9JJRlo11764; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 21:27:47 +0200 (MEST) Received: from fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (root@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.181.148]) by kawoserv.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA28381; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 21:27:48 +0200 Received: (from alex@localhost) by fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f9JJSZ203762; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 21:28:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from alex) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 21:28:35 +0200 From: Alexander Langer To: Will Andrews Cc: Guy Helmer , scanner@jurai.net, security@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, kde@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20011019212835.A3717@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> Mail-Followup-To: Alexander Langer , Will Andrews , Guy Helmer , scanner@jurai.net, security@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, kde@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20011019121555.V25747@squall.waterspout.com> <20011019124944.X25747@squall.waterspout.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011019124944.X25747@squall.waterspout.com>; from will@physics.purdue.edu on Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:49:44PM -0500 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 44 28 CA 4C 46 5B D3 A8 A8 E3 BA F3 4E 60 7D 7F X-PGP-at: finger alex@big.endian.de X-Verwirrung: Dieser Header dient der allgemeinen Verwirrung. Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thus spake Will Andrews (will@physics.purdue.edu): > > How about sending an email message to "root" with this message? It solves > > the problem of the message scrolling by during the installation... > There is no precedent for this in ports. And I'm not sure that > some people want to see this sort of thing... Make a precedent then :) It's a special case, I think it's good. However, you should send mail to the installing user (`id`). Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message