Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 11:40:13 -0500 From: mpd <mpd6334@cs.rit.edu> To: Jason Cribbins <jcribbins@kibserv.org> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Neigaard?= <neigaard@e-box.dk>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Are my questions stupid, to hard or am I just unlucky Message-ID: <20020406114013.A61962@rochester.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <011301c1dd86$524515e0$15841bd8@kibserv.org>; from jcribbins@kibserv.org on Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 11:15:50AM -0500 References: <14034112871.20020406173207@e-box.dk> <011301c1dd86$524515e0$15841bd8@kibserv.org>
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On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 11:15:50AM -0500, Jason Cribbins wrote: > It is probably not you. Your question seems to be formulated correctly and > doesn't lack any critical info. Although some may find your reference to > Linux as offensive but I never understood those guys anyhow. Normally you > should include system information such as version of BSD you are running but > for this question I don't see how that would be relevant. It should always be included. Many are still using 3.X and even 2.X. > > To me it seems more of a timing issue but I have to yet to figure it out. > Sometimes I send in a question and I get dozen responses within an hour and > other times I get zero for the same question. Other things as well. HTML mail gets ignored by some. Top-posted replies get ignored. Other badly formatted mail gets ignored. Greg Lehey posts "How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions" (available online at http://www.lemis.com/questions.html) every so often. This should be required reading for *anyone* posting to the list. > > What I would like to see is a download.com or tucows.com for FreeBSD > software. http://www.freshports.org, though the term "FreeBSD software" is misleading. Much of the software available for FreeBSD is portable to other platforms as well. > A site with all programs categorized by purpose with download and > popularity counts as well as user comments. This would be nice so that one > can look through all software for a particular task and see what others > thing about it before they give it a try. This is what freshmeat.net already does. > > -Jason And as for the original question about heartbeat and mon, it seems that heartbeat has some FreeBSD support already. Has anyone attempted to contact the maintainer of the software? I was able to get it to compile with a little coaxing, but I did no actual testing of the software itself, and I didn't look at mon at all. mike -- ___________________________________________________________ "KABLAM!" - Unknown from "POKEY IS IN MONOCHROME" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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