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Date:      Thu, 31 May 2007 13:06:12 -0500
From:      "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net>
To:        "Bob Johnson" <fbsdlists@gmail.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OT: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!
Message-ID:  <200705311806.l4VI6H0R038670@serene.no-ip.org>
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On Thu, 31 May 2007 12:02:26 -0400
"Bob Johnson" <fbsdlists@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/31/07, George <d1945@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> > Or how about favourite most useless man page entry:
> > 	
> > 	The notion of errors is ill defined.
> > 	
> > Come to think of it, that last one is almost poetic, isn't it?  In
> > a Zen sort of way.  Anyone recall which manpage it's from?
> 
> grep says netstat(1).
> 
> In the Bugs section, which seems like a good place for that
> information.
> 
> - Bob

Not actually one of the "worst" error messages, per se, but one I found
most amusing the first time I saw it:

Running procmail's "mailstat" program without any arguments yields the
following:

Most people don't type their own logfiles;  but, what do I care?

:-)

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net>




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