Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 00:57:19 -0500 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> To: aw1@stade.co.uk, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cvsup to 3.3-RC Failure Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19990911005719.014e4770@207.227.119.2> In-Reply-To: <19990911001404.B23835@titus.stade.co.uk> References: <xzpbtbbnmti.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <3.0.3.32.19990910031758.01d785d0@207.227.119.2> <xzpbtbbnmti.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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At 12:14 AM 9/11/99 +0100, Adrian Wontroba wrote: >And it is not as if it actually costs you much more than a bit of swap space: > >aw1@titus /home/aw1$ ps -aux | grep getty >root 365 0.0 0.0 828 0 v0 IWs+ - 0:00.00 (getty) >root 366 0.0 0.0 828 0 v2 IWs+ - 0:00.00 (getty) >root 367 0.0 0.0 828 0 v3 IWs+ - 0:00.00 (getty) >root 368 0.0 0.0 828 0 v4 IWs+ - 0:00.00 (getty) >root 369 0.0 0.0 828 0 v5 IWs+ - 0:00.00 (getty) >root 370 0.0 0.0 828 0 v6 IWs+ - 0:00.00 (getty) >root 371 0.0 0.0 828 0 v7 IWs+ - 0:00.00 (getty) >root 372 0.0 0.0 828 0 v8 IWs+ - 0:00.00 (getty) > ^ > | >--------------------------------+ > >Admittedly, I was bitten by the change when it happened. That I >was bitten was my own fault. I do read the commit logs, but the >significance of feeding the monster didn't hit me. I later blithly >merged away, rebooted and thought "Oops, take more care next time, don't >simultaneously upgrade three machines in a hurry". Ahhh, but when I got bit I edited /etc/ttys, so the cost increase was only a few keystrokes when running mergemaster. ;) >I would like to make a small plea for facts always in the logs, but >still retaining the occasional bit of humour. Agreed. Kinda bothers me that I missed the discussion and I make it a point to read all discussions on the cvs list and *all* RELENG_3 commits, as well as eyeball the cvsup output. DES (the person :) said it was discussed, but somehow I missed it. No matter, the reason was good. Just have to remember the next time X is installed to "fix" /etc/ttys. <muttering> Try to pay attention to what's going on and... 8-) Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net Systems/Network Administrator FreeBSD - the power to serve '86 Yamaha MaxiumX (not FBSD powered) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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