THE FREEBSD MAILING LIST FAQ $Id: mailing-list.FAQ,v 1.5 1995/01/03 15:54:04 gclarkii 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) freebsd-security Security issues freebsd-fs Filesystems freebsd-ports Discussion of "ports" freebsd-platforms Porting to Non-Intel platforms freebsd-hardware General discussion of FreeBSD hardware freebsd-install Installation issues (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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Even though the lists freebsd-core, freebsd-admin, freebsd-install and freebsd-arch are closed, anyone is free to send suggestions and comments to them. All other lists are open. All mailing lists live on `FreeBSD.ORG', so to post to a list you simply mail to `@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 [] 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!