From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 29 09:07:17 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA28274 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 29 Apr 1995 09:07:17 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA28268 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 1995 09:07:16 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA14384; Sat, 29 Apr 1995 09:06:27 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: time.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Bruce Evans cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org, nate@trout.sri.MT.net, phk@ref.tfs.com Subject: Re: What I'd *really like* for 2.0.5 In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 29 Apr 1995 22:11:58 +1000." <199504291211.WAA22625@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 09:06:26 -0700 Message-ID: <14382.799171586@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >> get found after boot if you remove the not found messages. Right > >> now I can use dmesg or look in /var/log/messages and see it, but if > > >Now we're getting silly. If your system works fine then you don't care. > >If it doesn't work, then you'll go start thinking about booting with -v. > > This fails for intermittent errors. > > Bruce Look guys, we're not trying to save the world in all its possible guises - there are a number of areas in which the current messages won't save you at all either, yet I don't see any of the proponents of "yell in all situations" coming up with any solutions to those problems, and you'd have us preserve an inferior status-quo instead and call it a victory. However, I don't see that this is going anywhere so I'll shut up now and say no more on the subject.. Jordan