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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@FreeBSD.org>,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc.shutdown
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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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