From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 31 22:24:28 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70FB016A46E for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 22:24:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from eastrmpop104.cox.net (eastrmpop104.cox.net [68.230.240.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED88313C4B8 for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 22:24:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from eastrmimpo01.cox.net ([68.1.16.119]) by eastrmmtao102.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.05.02.00 201-2174-114-20060621) with ESMTP id <20070531180620.SCER25169.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net>; Thu, 31 May 2007 14:06:20 -0400 Received: from serene.no-ip.org ([72.200.17.85]) by eastrmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id 5u6J1X00V1q7YRk0000000; Thu, 31 May 2007 14:06:20 -0400 Received: from serene.no-ip.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by serene.no-ip.org (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l4VI6H0R038670; Thu, 31 May 2007 13:06:17 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Message-Id: <200705311806.l4VI6H0R038670@serene.no-ip.org> Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 13:06:12 -0500 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" To: "Bob Johnson" In-Reply-To: <54db43990705310902u4cae3d44ha7410434096ce021@mail.gmail.com> References: <4e3998c7e72.465ed931@broadpark.no> <18014.49617.224340.697794@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <465EC558.9070102@netfence.it> <20070531135651.GA988@home> <54db43990705310902u4cae3d44ha7410434096ce021@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; amd64-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 22:24:28 -0000 On Thu, 31 May 2007 12:02:26 -0400 "Bob Johnson" wrote: > On 5/31/07, George 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