Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 09:33:28 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: utmp ut_host field Message-ID: <199507170733.JAA05185@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199507170433.VAA03601@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Jul 16, 95 09:33:41 pm
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As David Greenman wrote: > > >Something like this: > > #include <resolv.h> > > if (!(_res.options & RES_INIT)) > > res_init(); > > _res.retrans = 2; > > _res.retry = 0; > > > >As for making it not the default, I'd be quite happy to do this myself if > >you'd let me use an environment variable to enable it for the utilities > >that care.. :-) (you know, like "BLOCKSIZE", which most of the disk > >utilities respect when reporting disk units (df, du, etc)). > > What would you like to call it? PETERSGOODSTUFF? :-) If you can find one > that makes some logical sense... > What do other people think? Implement the 2-second timeout. This is 2.2-Development, it should be open for experiments. Install the command (as an exception to our normal policy to run a RELEASE) on freefall. If it's still spamming, disable the default and hack it via the environment, or better yet, implement it as shell aliases in the default /etc/csh.cshrc and /etc/profiles, so the casual users won't complain about the change. OTOH, David, you could use an alias as well. :-) Changing the default behaviour of a long-standing application just to the opposite is never a good idea. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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