Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 00:26:17 +1000 From: jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Make World Time - is it that important Message-ID: <19990922002617.A12895@caamora.com.au> In-Reply-To: <E11TP4c-0005yE-00@fanf.eng.demon.net>; from Tony Finch on Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 01:31:06PM %2B0100 References: <XFMail.990919171332.andrew@cream.org> <19990919230220.A74437@titus.stade.co.uk> <19990920173923.30467@mindspring.net> <19990920173923.30467@mindspring.net> <19990921083952.F11378@caamora.com.au> <E11TP4c-0005yE-00@fanf.eng.demon.net>
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On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 01:31:06PM +0100, Tony Finch wrote: > jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> wrote: > > > >my old faithfull i386dx33 [...] take a whole 10 minutes to build world. > > > >i start the procedure watch it fro about 5 or so minutes as i > >drink my tea then i go to bed. when i wake up in the morning i > >start the breafast and turn on teh screen and then i take 5 > >minutes to get focus, i'm a slow starter, by that time i see > >that its finished properly and i can get on with my life. > > :-) > > I have a couple of scripts which I install on every box that I want to > track -STABLE. One is a wrapper for `make buildworld` that also > cvsups and rebuilds the kernel and sysinstall and does a diff on > /etc. I run it nightly from cron and look at the results in my email > each morning. It almost never fails (and when it does it's me that > broke it). When I feel the need I can run mergemaster and my > installworld script, and I have an up-to-date OS. yup, only i'm not so advanced ... my needs are simple so i just do what needs to be done and it all works out. i do what you do manually, that is type in teh stuff by hand and if i make a mistake my hardware (the old 386) is slwo enough and forgiving enough to let me see whats ggoing one. on the other hand teh 486 is starting to get a bit blurry. when 240 cps was king of teh heap modem speed i could almost keep up. things have changed .. some say fro the better, faster is not always better. warm regards, thx for the reply. cheers jonathan -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia ===========================================================<jon@caamora.com.au> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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