From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 30 13:40:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from quarter.csl.sri.com (quarter.csl.sri.com [130.107.1.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 252D537B422 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 13:40:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gilham@csl.sri.com) Received: from snapdragon.csl.sri.com (snapdragon.csl.sri.com [130.107.19.20]) by quarter.csl.sri.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3UKdtN12758; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 13:39:55 -0700 Message-Id: <200104302039.f3UKdtN12758@quarter.csl.sri.com> To: art@pilikia.net Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tail In-Reply-To: Message from "Arthur W. Neilson III" of "Mon, 30 Apr 2001 08:41:22 -1000." <200104300841220210.0C7DBEE8@smtp> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 13:39:55 -0700 From: Fred Gilham Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Arthur W. Neilson III writes: ---------------------------------------- This very functionality, being able to cat a directory, saved my butt some years ago on an unfamiliar sys5r2 box which had crashed and no filesystem but root would mount. ls wasn't in the path and I remembered I could use cat dirname as a crude ls in order to navigate. This helped me find fsck in an obscure directory and repair the hosed filesystems and recover the system. ---------------------------------------- I've had a similar experience under like circumstances. I suspect that many system administrators, having painted themselves or found themselves painted into a corner, are glad that low-level functionality like this exists. -- Fred Gilham gilham@csl.sri.com And then [Clinton] turned to Hunter Thompson, of all people, and said with wholehearted fervor, "We're going to put one hundred thousand new police officers on the street." I was up all night persuading Hunter that this was not a personal threat. -- P. J. O'Rourke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message