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The "?" is the C shell way of saying "if the variable isn't defined, return NULL rather than an error." In Bash undefined variables by default are equal to NULL so as long as it was quoted properly, it wouldn't be an error. A neat alternative in Bash, however, is to use a notation like...

According to Apple, pre-Jaguar Mac OS X was based on FreeBSD 3.2, and the 10.2 release jumped it up to FreeBSD 4.4. Note that some elements, including gcc, are even more recent now, which is cool!

I too have a KVM setup (a Dr. Bott 4way) and experience the same thing you do, though I find that OSX is much faster at reconnecting to USB devices than OS9 was... if you get an answer, please share it here!

SystemStarter definitely works under 10.2: it was the /etc/rc file in Jaguar that I was reading when i came up with it. :-) Do this: $ tail -10 /etc/rc # Start System Services ## # Set language from CDIS.custom - assumes this is parse-able by sh . /var/log/CDIS.custom export LANGUAGE...

One other thing I found needed to be done: you need to change the permissions of both / and /etc, even if you add the DontBlameSendmail line to the .cf file. Here's what happened when I did exactly what Chris suggested on the ORA site: $ sendmail -v taylor /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 93...

m4 is a macro preprocessor that is usually part of the C compiler too, among other tasks. It lives, in Jaguar, in /usr/bin: $ file /usr/bin/m4 /usr/bin/m4: Mach-O executable ppc since you can't get it to work and it's in what I consider a pretty normal directory, perhaps you have a PATH...

Or, be a bit twisted and enjoy what happens when you: sudo SystemStarter -g disclaimer: you're on your own afterwards!

I was poking around with that this afternoon too (once I got Jaguar bootable, but that's another story), and I think that it'd be most useful when you want to lock in the top few lines while working with the lower pane as your live edit window. Sorta like a similar feature built into both EMACS...