From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Apr 15 3:50:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E3DA37B400 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 03:50:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3FAo3l76844; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 03:50:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 03:50:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200204151050.g3FAo3l76844@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Peter Pentchev Subject: Re: bin/37036: Make "periodic" output show positive "end-of-report" info Reply-To: Peter Pentchev Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/37036; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Peter Pentchev To: David Wolfskill Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/37036: Make "periodic" output show positive "end-of-report" info Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 13:42:28 +0300 On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 04:54:13AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: > > >Number: 37036 > >Category: bin > >Synopsis: Make "periodic" output show positive "end-of-report" info > >Originator: David Wolfskill > >Description: > The output from "periodic" is a collection of outputs from a > variety of individual scripts. As such, if the output were > to be truncated for some reason, the recipient of the report > could well fail to notice this. While this could well be > considered the responsibility of the recipient, there is a > small thing we could do to make the recipient's life a little > easier: just add a line to indicate that "this is the end." FWIW, I like both the idea and the patch very much! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 Thit sentence is not self-referential because "thit" is not a word. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message