From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 5 00:22:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA15906 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 00:22:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA15900 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 00:22:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA05939; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 00:22:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 00:22:43 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Mark Mayo cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: send-pr question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, Mark Mayo wrote: > Hi. I was just getting ready to CVSup the latest RELENG_2_2 so I could > help in testing. So I looked at the send-pr command to submit the bug > reports... but while installing the CVSup package, I had a problem.. I > put in the modula-3-lib package, then the cvsup-13.5 package. But when I > ran cvsup ld.so complained about not being able to find libz.so.2.0. So > I ftp'ed to ftp.freebsd.org and grabbed the > /pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/lib/libz/* files and comiled them up with > the default makefile. It only made a libz.a and libz_p.a. I put them in > /usr/lib but obvioulsy there was no libz.so.2.0. So I set about learning > how to do shared libraries -- I'm glad this problem came up cause it gives > me an excuse to learn about the shared library stuff :-) Ugh. This stupid thing again. :( fetch ftp://gdi.uoregon.edu/pub/libz.so.2.0.gz gunzip, put in /usr/local/lib. > The man page mentions I need a submitter-id. So I typed: send-pr > --request-id. Of course, then I realized that I was on my machine at home > connected over a dial-up line and I didn't tell it my email address so I'm > assuming there's no way for me to get my unique sid back -- correct?? > Plus, the man page (if I read it correctly) says if I'm contacting the > FreeBSD project, that I can just run send-pr "out of the box" and it will > have a customer id already. Is that true, or should I still bother with > the --request-id business?? I can so a send-pr from a machine that's got a > permanent connection to the net - so is this the best thing to do? Do NOT do --request-id. FreeBSD does not require one. You will be mailed back telling you not to run --request-id. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major