Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:17:43 -0400 From: epilogue <epilogue@allstream.net> To: Andrew Robinson <andrewr@uidaho.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Organizing the output of make etc. Message-ID: <20040930001743.5e46333b@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20040929232755.GW5379@uidaho.edu> References: <20040929232755.GW5379@uidaho.edu>
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On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:27:55 +1000 Andrew Robinson <andrewr@uidaho.edu> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm administering my own little hobby system. Great fun. I notice > that when I make targets, usually through portupgrade, a great deal of > text flies by. Some of it is of obvious immediate use, such as this > advice from Subversion: > > Make sure that: > * all your svn users are members of a common group > * this group is the group id of the db/ and locks/ > subdirectories of your repository > * the above subdirectories are writable by this group > > and some of it is not, unless the upgrade or installation fails, eg, > the output from each compilation. > > What I'd like to know is: how do you more experienced types cope with > this information flow? this article should add a few tricks to your bag. page 2 should be the most relevant to the question at hand:: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/07/FreeBSD_Basics.html while you're there, check out the many other useful articles. click on 'All Articles' under 'BSD Content' (on the left-side frame). another option would be to use /usr/bin/script, although that doesn't filter out any of the build messages. > I'd like to use a little script that winnows out the useful advice > from the recover-from-catastrophe-maybe advice, and then emails > selections to root, with appropriate subject line, etc. Does anyone have > a similar script,? If not I'll have a bash at writing one. If so, I'd > love to use it. > > Thanks for any ideas! > > Andrew > -- > Andrew Robinson Ph: 208 885 7115 > Department of Forest Resources Fa: 208 885 6226 > University of Idaho E : andrewr@uidaho.edu > PO Box 441133 W : http://www.uidaho.edu/~andrewr > Moscow ID 83843 Or: http://www.biometrics.uidaho.edu > No statement above necessarily represents my employer's opinion. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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