From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 25 1: 1:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FD901524E for ; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 01:01:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id RAA46167; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 17:30:54 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 17:30:53 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Jon O." Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Time and history Message-ID: <19990925173053.F54407@freebie.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Jon O. on Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 06:05:52AM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 25 September 1999 at 6:05:52 +0000, Jon O. wrote: > Hi: > > I just have a small suggestion. The history command shows the time > commands are executed and I have found this very useful in the past. I'm not sure I understand what you're talking about here. history is a command in some shells, but I don't know any other use, and the shell history commands don't associate times with the history items. > I would find it very useful if Freebsd report the time with more > precision than minutes. Say seconds or even better. I wonder if you're talking about syslogd. In that case, it sounds like a reasonable suggestion. There's no problem doing it; FreeBSD can resolve down to microseconds. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message