Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 11:19:48 -0400 From: Christopher Nehren <apeiron@comcast.net> To: FreeBSD Ports List <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: games/quakeserver broken because of unregistered user Message-ID: <20040810151948.GA44173@prophecy.dyndns.org>
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I went looking for a Quake server to install, and found quakeserver, though=
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it's marked as ignore because of an "unregistered user". This seems like a=
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perfectly silly (and perfectly bento -- erm, pointyhat -- derived) reason t=
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break a port when very little effort would fix it[1]. What would it take t=
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register this user? Aside from tenebrae, which gives me signal {10,11} when=
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try to start a new game, this appears to be the only way to run single-user=
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Quake under FreeBSD, so I'd like to preserve it. =20
[1]: And it's marked for removal, to boot! Sigh.
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I abhor a system designed for the "user", if that word is a coded
pejorative meaning "stupid and unsophisticated". -- Ken Thompson
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Unix is user friendly. However, it isn't idiot friendly.
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