From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 3 13:28:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA11239 for current-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 13:28:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA11093 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 13:27:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) id WAA22422; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 22:15:20 +0100 (MET) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by knobel.gun.de (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA00722; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 22:12:05 +0100 (MET) From: Andreas Klemm Message-Id: <199601032112.WAA00722@knobel.gun.de> Subject: Re: /usr/bin/fortune To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 22:12:05 +0100 (MET) Cc: FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Chuck Robey" at Jan 3, 96 02:00:46 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. > > > > I supped fortune from -current at Dec, 28. > > while(1) > > fortune > > end > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 232 Nov 14 1994 Makefile > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8320 Sep 4 1994 Notes > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2303 Sep 4 1994 README > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Dec 28 23:10 datfiles > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Dec 28 23:10 fortune > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Dec 28 23:10 strfile > > ^^ > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Dec 19 1994 tools > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Dec 19 1994 unstr > > ^^ > > I might be a little slow in the uptake, I don't get what you're saying. > Maybe you should say it again, speaking slowly and using short words (8-). Oh, boy ... too much parties in the last two weeks, really ;-) Seems to be that I was fighting a bit with the editor, with my brain or with both ;-) All I wanted to say was, that I couldn't reproduce the error. I made a little script to see if fortune works or not. It did well. As a reference I showed you the date of the src directories, so that you can see, what I got when supping -current these days. The marker (^) should lead your attention to the fact, that some days there was an update of some files. To be short: sup the newest version and please try again, since it works perfectly here ... Hope I got the right words now ;-) Andreas /// -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ - Support Unix - aklemm@wup.de - \/ ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz apsfilter - magic print filter 4lpd >>> knobel is powered by FreeBSD <<<