101 lines
4.2 KiB
Plaintext
101 lines
4.2 KiB
Plaintext
THE FREEBSD MAILING LIST FAQ
|
|
|
|
Last updated: $Date: 1994/09/14 09:50:56 $
|
|
Id: $Id: mailing-list.FAQ,v 1.2 1994/09/14 09:50:56 jkh Exp $
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
Though many of the FreeBSD development members read USENET, we cannot
|
|
always guarantee that we'll get to your questions in a timely fashion
|
|
(or at all) if you post them only to one of the comp.os.386bsd.*
|
|
groups. By addressing your questions to the appropriate mailing list
|
|
you will reach both us and a concentrated FreeBSD audience, invariably
|
|
assuring a better (or at least faster) response.
|
|
|
|
The following is a summary of the mailing lists:
|
|
|
|
List Purpose
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
freebsd-admim Administrative issues (limited)
|
|
freebsd-arch Architecture and design discussions (limited)
|
|
freebsd-bugs Bug reports
|
|
freebsd-hackers Technical discussions and suggestions
|
|
freebsd-questions User questions
|
|
freebsd-announce Important events / milestones
|
|
freebsd-current Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current
|
|
freebsd-commit Commit messages to source repository
|
|
freebsd-core FreeBSD core team (limited)
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
The following lists are for people seeing the log messages for source changes
|
|
in specific areas:
|
|
|
|
List name Source area Area Description (source for)
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
cvs-CVSROOT /usr/src/[A-Z]* Top level /usr/src file changes
|
|
cvs-all /usr/src All changes to the tree (superset)
|
|
cvs-bin /usr/src/bin System binaries
|
|
cvs-etc /usr/src/etc System files
|
|
cvs-games /usr/src/games Games
|
|
cvs-gnu /usr/src/gnu GPL'd utilities
|
|
cvs-include /usr/src/include Include files
|
|
cvs-kerberosIV /usr/src/kerberosIV Kerberos encryption code
|
|
cvs-lib /usr/src/lib System libraries
|
|
cvs-libexec /usr/src/libexec System binaries
|
|
cvs-sbin /usr/src/sbin System binaries
|
|
cvs-share /usr/src/share System shared files
|
|
cvs-sys /usr/src/sys Kernel
|
|
cvs-usrbin /usr/src/usr.bin Use binaries
|
|
cvs-usrsbin /usr/src/usr.sbin System binaries
|
|
cvs-ports /usr/ports Ported software
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
Of all the lists, freebsd-arch, freebsd-admin and freebsd-core have closed
|
|
memberships limited to a small subset of core team members and developers,
|
|
though anyone is free to send suggestions and commentary to them. The other
|
|
lists may be freely joined by the general public.
|
|
|
|
All mailing lists live on `FreeBSD.ORG', so to post to a list you
|
|
simply mail to `<listname>@FreeBSD.ORG'. It will then be redistributed
|
|
to mailing list members throughout the world.
|
|
|
|
To subscribe to a list, send mail to:
|
|
|
|
majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG
|
|
|
|
And include the keyword
|
|
|
|
subscribe <listname> [<optional address>]
|
|
|
|
In the body of your message. For example, to subscribe yourself to
|
|
freebsd-hackers, you'd do:
|
|
|
|
% mail majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG
|
|
subscribe freebsd-hackers
|
|
^D
|
|
|
|
If you want to subscribe yourself under a different name, or submit a
|
|
subscription request for a local mailing list (note: this is more efficient
|
|
if you have several interested parties at one site, and highly appreciated by
|
|
us!), you would do something like:
|
|
|
|
% mail majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG
|
|
subscribe freebsd-hackers local-hackers@somesite.com
|
|
^D
|
|
|
|
Finally, it is also possible to unsubscribe yourself from a list, get a
|
|
list of other list members or see the list of mailing lists again by
|
|
sending other types of control messages to majordomo. For a complete
|
|
list of available commands, do this:
|
|
|
|
% mail majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG
|
|
help
|
|
^D
|
|
|
|
Finally, it is suggested that you only join the freebsd-hackers or
|
|
freebsd-questions mailing lists if you're also willing to see upwards
|
|
of 100 messages a day (peak)! If you're only interested in the "high points",
|
|
then it's suggested that you join freebsd-announce, which will contain
|
|
only infrequent traffic.
|
|
|
|
Thank you!
|