From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 29 2:42:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mout1.freenet.de (mout1.freenet.de [194.97.50.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C009A37B43C for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 02:42:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rabat@web.de) Received: from [194.97.50.144] (helo=mx1.freenet.de) by mout1.freenet.de with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 154g1M-0003Yc-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 29 May 2001 11:42:36 +0200 Received: from b3b43.pppool.de ([213.7.59.67] helo=spotteswoode.yi.org) by mx1.freenet.de with asmtp (ID inode@freenet.de) (Exim 3.22 #1) id 154g1L-0005mL-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 29 May 2001 11:42:35 +0200 Received: (qmail 4023 invoked by uid 0); 29 May 2001 09:42:54 -0000 Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 11:42:54 +0200 From: clemensF To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commands doing nothing just one time, then behaving Message-ID: <20010529114254.K336@spotteswoode.yi.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20010528180943.L477@kirk.sector14.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010528180943.L477@kirk.sector14.net>; from dgl@visi.com on Mon, May 28, 2001 at 06:09:43PM -0400 Organization: private X-PGP-ID: 0x214190AF X-Stamper-To: post@stamper.itconsult.co.uk Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Doug Lee: > I've occasionally seen various commands return immediately and do > nothing, as if never run. Every time I see this, a second run (even > by arrowing up to retrieve the line from the tcsh buffer) works > normally. I can't remember when this started happening. It's not > frequent and, sadly, not predictable. If I think about it next time > it happens, I'll do an `ls -ul' on the command to see if it even got > accessed. i've got something similiar: "ipfw flush" asks if i really want to flush the firewall rules, then sometime thereafter i do "ipfw -f flush" and it says "illegal flag -- f" and doesn't flush anything. i can do "ipfw flush" and it does nothing. sometimes this does not happen. clemens To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message