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Date:      Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:48:00 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc.shutdown
Message-ID:  <20000721004800.W13979@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <82367.964164856@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>; from sheldonh@uunet.co.za on Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 09:34:16AM %2B0200
References:  <200007201925.MAA91983@freefall.freebsd.org> <82367.964164856@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>

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* Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> [000721 00:34] wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 12:25:12 MST, "Andrey A. Chernov" wrote:
> 
> >   Modified files:
> >     etc                  rc.shutdown 
> >   Log:
> >   dd is too verbose writting entropy, redirect its output to /dev/null
> >   Add period at the end of sentence
> 
> For your reference, the reason Mark avoided this exact behaviour was
> that one now has no way of knowing whether the stash operation worked.
> I don't think it matters how noisy stuff is on shutdown.
> 
> I wouldn't bother to revert the commit now -- it's a small issue.  but
> in future, keep in mind that you should probably contact folks before
> changing stuff they've done recently.

Can't the script check dd's exit status?

-Alfred


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