Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 13:36:54 -0700 From: "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Several questions that I can't seem to find on answers to on Google Message-ID: <F42NXRPmcarcR4ZDgC8000039e4@hotmail.com>
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Hello--This if my first post to any help mailing list, so if I break any etiquette please let me know. :-) As soon as I get competant with FreeBSD I will try to repay the help that I get here. I just need to get competant first. :) 1) Whenever I boot now, I get the message "recovering vi editor sessions:sendmail:not found" I assume that these are two separate messages and that someone just forgot the \n or something. Anyway, what vi editor sessions? I rarely use vi. 2) How on earth do I get rid of Sendmail? Whenever I delete sendmail, it breaks build world. Furthermore, why is it installed by default? It seems to be deeply imbedded in FreeBSD. I would think that, if anything, FreeBSD would install Qmail but I would really greatly prefer if I had the option of not installing any MTA. I have tried disabling sendmail in rc.conf. 3) It seems that randomely when I make a new kernel, when it initializes IPFW and says "(stuff), IPDIVERT DISABLED, default to deny, etc., etc.) but the kernel config file clearly has "OPTIONS IPDIVERT". Is another kernel option conflicting with this? (I'll post a partial config file if needed) 4) Where can I get information in FreeBSD's weird hard drive device naming configuration? 5) Speaking of that, some docs said that IDE devices are always named wd(xxxxx), but my / is "ad0". Is root an exception? Why? 6) This is really trivial, but when I add color to the BASh prompt, the first line wraps after typing about 5 characters. A think that this is because the color codes are treated as if they take up space on the cmd line, but they do not. (With the color codes, the command line would be quite long). Does anybody happen to know how to fix this off the top of their heads? 7) Has anyone had any problems with PGCC? Note that I have noticed a general dislike for strong optimizations in the FreeBSD community from reading web pages and the like. I like strong optimizations, especially for important programs like gzip, bz2, gcc, and ipfw. I haven't used PGCC in a while. Last time I did, it failed to compiled glibc2.1 on a linux system citing some completely esoteric error (not unlike "malloc type lacks magic" that FreeBSD likes to tell me) Many thanks ahead of time for any help. Charles N. Burns System background: P2-400, 384MB RAM acting as firewall, transparent proxy, FTP, SSH, NFS, and SMB server. FreeBSD 4.2-Stable source updated 1Mar2000 Connected to internet via Cox@home in Phoenix, AZ, USA. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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