On Wed, 12 May 1999, Mark Murray wrote:
> Bob K wrote:
> > Well, I did some reading through rfc821, and an email address is defined
> > as follows:
>
> Email addresses != Usernames. What this suggests to me is that having
> an _alias_ (say) Mark.Murray to markmurray in /
On Wed, 12 May 1999, David Wolfskill wrote:
> >Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 14:15:12 -0400 (EDT)
> >From: Bob K
>
> >People on -current: Just to recap, adduser (and rmuser) disallow .'s in
> >usernames on FreeBSD-stable; passwd(5) cites that some mailers have
&g
else on this list is better qualified to answer your question
> than I am, tho.
>
> I've noticed that most of the places that I've seen dots in user names are
> on Microsoft mail servers and windows NT logins. I personally have never
> seen them on a UNIX server. But ag
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Lee Cremeans wrote:
> Will this new ATA driver finally support DMA correctly on ATAPI devices (as
> opposed to pure ATA disk devices)? This is a feature that could really come
> in handy for me (as well as a reason to migrate back to -current from 3.1 :)
Which brings up a ques
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> Sniff. I liked rc.conf where it was. /etc/rc, /etc/rc.conf.
> /etc/rc.local, /etc/rc.conf.local. Simple and obvious.
>
> Now we have /etc/defaults/rc.conf, /etc/rc.conf, and /etc/rc.conf.local.
> Considerably less simple and quite uno
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Søren Schmidt wrote:
[snip]
> Yep I know, the chipset on the Promise is not initialized to what the
> drives support then, its working in a slow (but always working though)
> mode. I did plan to change this, and even got the docs for the chips
> but it has sunken pretty low o
