From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 31 00:33:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A8E116A420; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:33:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gad@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp3.server.rpi.edu (smtp3.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 180EF43D45; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:33:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gad@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp3.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k0V0XRe5007725; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:33:27 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20060130235717.J95776@fledge.watson.org> References: <200601301233.k0UCXiKq085748@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060130123525.GD83922@FreeBSD.org> <20060130215816.GC91655@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20060130235717.J95776@fledge.watson.org> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:33:26 -0500 To: Robert Watson , "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" From: Garance A Drosehn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) on 128.113.2.3 Cc: Matteo Riondato , Gleb Smirnoff , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/defaults periodic.conf X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:33:29 -0000 At 11:58 PM +0000 1/30/06, Robert Watson wrote: >On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >>On Monday, 30 January 2006, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: >>>On Mon, Jan 30, 2006, Matteo Riondato wrote: >>>M> matteo 2006-01-30 12:33:44 UTC >>>M> >>>M> FreeBSD src repository >>>M> >>>M> Modified files: >>>M> etc/defaults periodic.conf >>>M> Log: >>>M> Make df output in periodic mail human readable >>> >>>Thanks! >> >>*sigh* >> >>Not everybody is human. > >My daily script parsers certainly aren't. I think the 'df' output in periodic should remain in "full resolution", so to speak. Or maybe in both formats, if some people really have trouble dealing with the larger numbers. The periodic mailings are sometimes good for going-back and checking the status of things after happened, when you had not configured any special monitoring program beforehand. In some sense I don't particularly mind the *format* of the numbers, but on this context I mind that you lose the specific values in favor of some rough estimate. If some person doesn't like the long string of digits, they can always write something to reformat the output from previous emails. But if you *want* the extra detail, there is no amount of reformatting which is going to bring back the detail which is lost from 'df -h'. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA