From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 21 13:16:28 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8252037B401 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:16:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from bellsouth.net (adsl-81-38-216.asm.bellsouth.net [65.81.38.216]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 88E0A43FE9 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:15:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zerotransfer@bellsouth.net) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org subject: Re: Cvsup Handbook Example Message-Id: <20030221211520.88E0A43FE9@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:15:20 -0800 (PST) From: zerotransfer@bellsouth.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Obviously I don't think it is mythology or I wouldn't believe it :-) Actually it is not my place to tell people what numbers they are and are not allowed to use. More than the number, the issue for me is the motivation of why that number was used. Why use one of the only three digit numbers that I know of that is associated with evil to at least one belief? See my point? zerotransfer <>< ----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Hopper" To: Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 2:42 PM Subject: Re: Cvsup Handbook Example > Sorry, this of course should have read 'after 665 and before 667'. > > On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 11:13, Justin Hopper wrote: > > Hello unamed person, > > > > For the rest of the world that doesn't follow Christian Mythology, 666 > > is just the number after 667 and before 665. I've used 666 in several > > coding examples, usually for client/server socket daemons, as most > > people don't have anything using port 666. > > > > Would you rather that the good people of FreeBSD be barred from using > > particular numbers? This could pose a problem. > -- > Justin Hopper > jhopper@spry.com > UNIX Systems Engineer > http://www.spry.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message