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Date:      Sat, 6 Apr 2002 11:40:13 -0500
From:      mpd <mpd6334@cs.rit.edu>
To:        Jason Cribbins <jcribbins@kibserv.org>
Cc:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Neigaard?= <neigaard@e-box.dk>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Are my questions stupid, to hard or am I just unlucky
Message-ID:  <20020406114013.A61962@rochester.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <011301c1dd86$524515e0$15841bd8@kibserv.org>; from jcribbins@kibserv.org on Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 11:15:50AM -0500
References:  <14034112871.20020406173207@e-box.dk> <011301c1dd86$524515e0$15841bd8@kibserv.org>

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On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 11:15:50AM -0500, Jason Cribbins wrote:
> It is probably not you.  Your question seems to be formulated correctly and
> doesn't lack any critical info.  Although some may find your reference to
> Linux as offensive but I never understood those guys anyhow.  Normally you
> should include system information such as version of BSD you are running but
> for this question I don't see how that would be relevant.

It should always be included. Many are still using 3.X and even 2.X.

> 
> To me it seems more of a timing issue but I have to yet to figure it out.
> Sometimes I send in a question and I get dozen responses within an hour and
> other times I get zero for the same question.

Other things as well. HTML mail gets ignored by some. Top-posted
replies get ignored. Other badly formatted mail gets ignored.

Greg Lehey posts "How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions"
(available online at http://www.lemis.com/questions.html) every so often.
This should be required reading for *anyone* posting to the list.

> 
> What I would like to see is a download.com or tucows.com for FreeBSD
> software.  

http://www.freshports.org, though the term "FreeBSD software"
is misleading. Much of the software available for FreeBSD
is portable to other platforms as well.

> A site with all programs categorized by purpose with download and
> popularity counts as well as user comments.  This would be nice so that one
> can look through all software for a particular task and see what others
> thing about it before they give it a try.

This is what freshmeat.net already does.

> 
> -Jason

And as for the original question about heartbeat and mon,
it seems that heartbeat has some FreeBSD support already.

Has anyone attempted to contact the maintainer of the software?

I was able to get it to compile with a little coaxing, but
I did no actual testing of the software itself, and I
didn't look at mon at all.

mike
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