Constantine A. Murenin
Posts tagged ‘NetBSD’
style(9)
core:src {5594} find share/man -type f | xargs fgrep "there's" && uname -rms
share/man/man9/style.9:Then there's a blank line, followed by the
share/man/man9/style.9:Then there's a blank line, and the user include files.
OpenBSD 4.6 amd64
core:src {5595} 

wow, I certainly didn’t expect that!

For comparison, though:

dale# find share/man -type f | xargs fgrep "there's" && uname -rms
share/man/man4/ipsec.4:so for the receiving kernel there's no sign of authenticity
share/man/man4/man4.vax/dn.4:The device doesn't exist, or there's no power to it.
share/man/man9/kauth.9:there's no way to tell what structure
share/man/man9/kfilter_register.9:if there's an invalid argument, or
share/man/man9/kfilter_register.9:if there's an invalid argument, or
share/man/man9/sysmon_envsys.9:If there's some error before registering the device, the
share/man/man9/sysmon_envsys.9:object will be freed, so there's no need to call
NetBSD 5.99.22 i386
dale# 

NetBSD mailing lists

Subscribing to the NetBSD mailing lists is a major PITA, there are just too many of them!

A quite annoying thing is that you cannot subscribe to all of them at once; if you try to send multiple ‘subscribe …’ messages to the majordomo (instead of using the web-interface), then you will still get back multiple approval (“Confirmation”) requests in individual messages, e.g. one reply per each ‘subscribe …’ request, plus the overall status reply for the original ‘subscribe … subscribe …’ message. So then you have to open like 26 different messages, find the ‘auth …’ code in each, and then send another message to the majordomo, only to again receive 27 different reply (“Welcome”) messages!

BTW, whilst looking at it, I figured out an interesting functionality in sort(1): if you want to sort the “auth 11516c80 subscribe current-users …” style lines by the name of the mailing list, ignoring the auth codes, then all you have to do is run `sort -k4`. UNIX / POSIX definitely rule. :-)