From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 29 19:16:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA03293 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 19:16:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA03170 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 19:16:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id LAA04731; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 11:45:37 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980630114536.G1880@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 11:45:36 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Chris Martino Cc: Brian Tiemann , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fortune References: <19980630095233.V1880@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Chris Martino on Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 09:17:07PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 29 June 1998 at 21:17:07 -0400, Chris Martino wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Monday, 29 June 1998 at 14:55:45 -0700, Brian Tiemann wrote: >>> >>> Okay, here's a silly question... >>> >>> I'm having trouble with "fortune". Going to /usr/src/games/fortune >>> and doing a "make all install" (after installing caesar and so on) seems >>> to install it properly; I can type "fortune" and get output just fine. >>> I've compiled with support for the "offensive" fortunes. >>> However, if I use "fortune -o", it gives me a "Floating exception >>> (core dumped)". >> >> Maybe the system took offence? > > I thought the "Floating exception (core dumped)" fortunes was one of the > fortunes. > > Has it happend more that once? Possible. Did you get a core dump? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message