From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jul 3 05:58:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA24262 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 05:58:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA24255 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 05:58:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA15120; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 22:58:24 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19980703225821.25053@welearn.com.au> Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 22:58:21 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: Nick Hibma Cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PKGINFO statistics References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: ; from Nick Hibma on Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 02:02:02PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 02:02:02PM +0200, Nick Hibma wrote: > > In short, it would be appreciated if you could execute the command below > on your FreeBSD box. It is harmless. For the benefit of anyone who doesn't know this already, NEVER execute a command you don't understand. They will always tell you it is harmless, of course! That's why we have man pages :-) In this case it seems to be from a good bloke for a good reason, and everyone except us would have understood immediately what the command would do. I'm still gonna read up on it first though :-) Nick, would it help at all if newbies identified themselves as newbies when they send you the info? -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message