From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 4 14:43:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA01693 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 14:43:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-4.mail.demon.net (relay-4.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA01675 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 14:43:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-4.mail.demon.net id ah02699; 4 Jul 96 21:42 GMT Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa20312; 4 Jul 96 22:41 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA01258; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 14:54:56 GMT Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 14:54:56 GMT Message-Id: <199607041454.OAA01258@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com CC: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <87ohlwttpm.fsf@freebsd.gaffaneys.com> (message from Zach Heilig on 04 Jul 1996 01:31:49 -0500) Subject: Re: Sorting Incoming Mail Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> Zach Heilig writes: [How to read mailing lists with GNUS] > The wierd thing is when I set it up, it wouldn't work no matter how > much I fiddled with it, then for some reason I rebooted, and all of a > sudden, it worked. Odd, isn't it? (I think it has to do with having > the sticky-bit set on the emacs executable, and having just upgraded > from gnus 5.0.4 or something.. it might be modifing the already loaded > core image). The sticky bit is an archaism - it meant "keep this executable in swap when I quit it because I use it a lot and it takes a long time to load". Modern Unices (including of course FreeBSD) ignore this as their virtual memory management is clever enough to work that out without such unsubtle hints. (Not to be confused with the sticky bit on a directory, which means "the files in this directory may only be deleted by their owner" and is still very much in use for world-writeable directories like /tmp). I'd have thought it was probably something like a piece of Lisp code that needed to be re-loaded but wasn't - presumably you tried the obvious things like closing and re-starting Emacs? -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/