From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 31 12:48:56 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA19846 for current-outgoing; Sun, 31 Dec 1995 12:48:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from bacchus.eng.umd.edu (bacchus.eng.umd.edu [129.2.94.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA19841 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 1995 12:48:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from cappuccino.eng.umd.edu (cappuccino.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.14]) by bacchus.eng.umd.edu (8.7.3/8.7) with ESMTP id PAA14552 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 1995 15:48:51 -0500 (EST) Received: (chuckr@localhost) by cappuccino.eng.umd.edu (8.7.3/8.6.4) id PAA02455; Sun, 31 Dec 1995 15:48:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 15:48:51 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@cappuccino.eng.umd.edu To: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: /usr/bin/fortune Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It's been recently broken, only about one call in 3 now succeeds. I looked at the source code, and I am frankly amazed at how such a simple program could be so incredibly complicated. ============================================================================ Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu -- I run FreeBSD on n3lxx and Journey2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Dilbert Zone is Dilbert's new WWW home! The area features never-before-seen original sketches of Dilbert, a photo tour of Scott Adams' studio, Dilbert Trivia and memorabilia, high school photos and much more!: