From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 4 12:18:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from linus.highpoint.edu (linus.highpoint.edu [192.154.46.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF49037B403 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 12:18:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from zhartley@localhost) by linus.highpoint.edu (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f94JHVo16543 for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 15:17:31 -0400 Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 15:17:31 -0400 From: Zach Hartley To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20011004151731.A16303@linus.highpoint.edu> Mail-Followup-To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20011004204912.A629@lpt.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011004204912.A629@lpt.ens.fr>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 08:49:12PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Around Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 08:49:12PM +0200, Rahul Siddharthan thus spake the following: > ># cd /usr/src > ># ln -s `/usr/games/fortune` /etc/malloc.conf > ># make world > > What does the middle line accomplish? It only seems to give > ln: /etc/malloc.conf: No such file or directory > which makes sense, since `/usr/games/fortune` will hardly ever > give you a file reference which actually exists. > I believe some would call it a "joke", that is, something to make others laugh.... Zach -- Zachary Todd Hartley "Attempted murder. Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry?" --Sideshow Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message