From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 12 20:58:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBD8916A4DF for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:58:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bakul@bitblocks.com) Received: from mail.bitblocks.com (bitblocks.com [209.204.185.216]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADB9343D45 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:58:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bakul@bitblocks.com) Received: from bitblocks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.bitblocks.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 151AF2948D; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:58:22 -0700 (PDT) To: Julian Elischer In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:08:17 PDT." <44DE3531.7040308@elischer.org> Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:58:21 -0700 From: Bakul Shah Message-Id: <20060812205822.151AF2948D@mail.bitblocks.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suggested addition to 'date' X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:58:22 -0000 > To me it seems more natural to add the few extra lines to date because > in my mind it is a natural > usage of date and extending date to be able to be used as a filter > doesn't hurt existing functionality. I may want to prepend a log line with not just a timestamp but also other information such as user, group, hostname etc. This change may be small but it does not belong in date(1). Just as I wouldn't want to extend hostname(1) to be a filter. It makes more sense to extend logger(1), not date(1). Don't mess with my date:-)