From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 4 19:20:36 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B60D16A46F for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2007 19:20:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu (math.missouri.edu [128.206.184.200]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DF9213C4BC for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2007 19:20:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by math.missouri.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l64JKYMd040310; Wed, 4 Jul 2007 14:20:34 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from localhost (stephen@localhost) by math.missouri.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id l64JKYa7040307; Wed, 4 Jul 2007 14:20:34 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 14:20:34 -0500 (CDT) From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien_Santoro?= In-Reply-To: <5ea6cb100707041138i66d69c06lbb5cd3cebfd53e57@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20070704141743.I2124@math.missouri.edu> References: <5ea6cb100707041138i66d69c06lbb5cd3cebfd53e57@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="0-270094-1183576834=:2124" Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [sysadmin/slay] port deleted - can we think about a cvs regression? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 19:20:36 -0000 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --0-270094-1183576834=:2124 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, S=E9bastien Santoro wrote: > Hi, > > slay is a little utility to kill all processes belonging to a > user, it's useful in a script or when you want kill a lot of processes > belonging to one user (slay qmaill). > > Furthermore, if the user is logged on the shell, he's warned. > > I've got a surprise 30 minutes ago when I cd sysadmin/slay, the > port has been deleted with the following commit message: > 2006-12-31 sysutils/slay: Author doesn't see it as needed anymore > > If author doesn't see it's need anymore, I'm annoyed my scripts > are broken by this decision. Slay does a small tasks, is stable. > > Is it possible to think about a CVS regression to restore this port ? "killall -u" does what you want except warn the users, and that you could= =20 do using "write". Does that suit your needs? --0-270094-1183576834=:2124--