From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 11 5: 9:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.palmerharvey.co.uk (mail.palmerharvey.co.uk [62.172.109.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BFC015319 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 05:09:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk) Received: from ho-nt-01.pandhm.co.uk (unverified) by mail.palmerharvey.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 2.0.15) with ESMTP id ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 13:08:01 +0100 Received: from voodoo.pandhm.co.uk (VOODOO [10.100.35.12]) by ho-nt-01.pandhm.co.uk with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id Q4XVHV5W; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 13:07:54 +0100 Received: from dom by voodoo.pandhm.co.uk with local (Exim 2.10 #1) id 11EXAz-0000YL-00; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 13:08:13 +0100 Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 13:08:13 +0100 To: Dominic Mitchell Cc: Andy Farkas , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing hack(6) overwrites /var/games/hackdir/record file! Message-Id: <19990811130812.A2117@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk> References: <19990811095448.B468@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <19990811095448.B468@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk>; from Dominic Mitchell on Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 09:54:48AM +0100 From: Dominic Mitchell Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 09:54:48AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 04:24:55AM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote: > > Perhaps this should be a PR... > > > > Seeing as how we are recently being amused by fortune(6) quotes, I thought > > I'd mention an acronymn that hasn't been used recently: POLA > > > > Can anyone explain why every time I upgrade world, my hard earned 'record' > > file whilst playing hack(6) gets overwritten by /dev/null, and also all > > the user 'bones' and 'save' files rm'd? > > Blimey! I wondered where all my rogue(6) scores were going. This is an > excellent idea. I'll submit a PR, with your diffs and some for rogue. OK, if you'd like to have a look at PR bin/13068, and maybe somebody could commit if it's agreed to be a good thing. -- Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator "Finally, when replying to messages only quote the parts of the message your will be discussing or that are relevant. Quoting whole messages and adding two lines at the top is not good etiquette." -- Elias Levy -- ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message