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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
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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
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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!

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