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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!benjy.csn.tu-chemnitz.de!mha From: Michael Hasenstein <mha@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and network accounting Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 21:24:58 +0200 Organization: University of Technology Chemnitz, FRG Lines: 27 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.92.960428212240.297B-100000@benjy.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> References: <4lgfmj$n64@narses.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> <4ljd8j$ng0@uriah.heep.sax.de> <Pine.LNX.3.92.960424084114.105B-100000@benjy.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> <830348589.3000@arg1.demon.co.uk> <Pine.LNX.3.92.960425122633.110A-100000@benjy.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> <4lon5a$2qd@uriah.heep.sax.de> <Pine.LNX.3.92.960426085852.81B-100000@benjy.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> <31827D40.446B9B3D@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: benjy.csn.tu-chemnitz.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: mha@benjy.csn.tu-chemnitz.de To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <31827D40.446B9B3D@FreeBSD.org> On Sat, 27 Apr 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: ... > Well, to be honest the question itself was pretty senseless and thus not > one likely to inspire intelligent replies! > > It was senseless because it's not specific enough to make any answer > other than "whatever *needs* to be changed, dude!" the right one. You > have a simple porting problem, so port it! If, once you've embarked > down that road, you have any *specific* questions that cannot be easily > answered by referring to the sources to tcpdump, nacctd and (if > necessary) parts of FreeBSD itself, then this is a good group to ask. > > If you just want to know how to port software in general or lack the > programming abilities to port UNIX software at all, then I can only > recommend a good book. Thanks for the friendly answer. Don't you think it might have been possible that someone already ported it? So why do I have to reinvent the wheel, then? Senseless is your stupid comment only! -- ******************************************************************* email: Michael.Hasenstein@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (MIME welcome) homepage: http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~mha my private pc: benjy.csn.tu-chemnitz.de (Linux!!) or 134.109.104.2 *******************************************************************