Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 23:06:46 -0500 From: Jan Knepper <jan@smartsoft.cc> To: Arthur <arthur@argay.com.au> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Username length Message-ID: <3A0A22D6.BEFE7751@smartsoft.cc> References: <000e01c049d5$cf4d8680$86391ecb@argay.com.au>
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<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <blockquote TYPE=CITE><font size=-1>A couple of questions please.</font> <font size=-1>1. I have an urgent need to have username greater than 8 characters. Any advice please. I am using FreeBSd 2.2.6, but am close to upgrading to 4.1.1 stable.</font></blockquote> What do you need them for? <br>If it is e-mail, move to qmail <A HREF="http://www.qmail.org/">http://www.qmail.org/</A>; instead of sendmail... <br>Than you don't have to have your users in /etc/passwd either! <blockquote TYPE=CITE><font size=-1>2. With the upgrade I installed 4.0 from the Cd's then ran CVSUP for the 4.1.1 upgrade and all ports. I am unable to follow what to do nest, the base directory is /usr, however there is no files in /usr/src.</font> <font size=-1>Any help greatly appreciated</font> <font size=-1>Arthur</font></blockquote> Read the UPDATING in /usr/src <br>You will hage to make world and build a kernel etc. <p>Don't worry, be Kneppie! <br>Jan <br> <p>-- <br>Jan Knepper <br>Smartsoft, LLC <br>88 Petersburg Road <br>Petersburg, NJ 08270 <br>U.S.A. <p><A HREF="http://www.smartsoft.cc/">http://www.smartsoft.cc/</A>; <br><A HREF="http://www.mp3.com/pianoprincess">http://www.mp3.com/pianoprincess</A>; <p>Phone : 609-628-4260 <br>FAX : 609-628-1267 <br>FAX : 303-845-6415 <A HREF="http://www.fax4free.com/">http://www.fax4free.com/</A>; <p>Phone : 020-873-3837 <A HREF="http://www.xoip.nl/">http://www.xoip.nl/</A>; (Dutch) <br>FAX : 020-873-3837 <A HREF="http://www.xoip.nl/">http://www.xoip.nl/</A>; (Dutch) <p>In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. <br> -- Charles Forsythe <forsythe@alum.mit.edu> <br> </body> </html> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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