From owner-freebsd-stable Sun May 16 11:37: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tranq1.tranquility.net (tranq1.tranquility.net [206.156.230.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADE6114E40 for ; Sun, 16 May 1999 11:37:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu (stephen.tranquility.net [206.156.230.78]) by tranq1.tranquility.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA05775; Sun, 16 May 1999 13:36:58 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <373F1072.E4425E39@math.missouri.edu> Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 13:37:38 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hometeam Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggestion for make world References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes, that is exactly what I was doing - I have a log file - the only thing is, when I look at it, it is not immediately obvious from looking at it that the make buildworld/installworld has finished, and has not otherwise been interupted. hometeam wrote: > > Try using a log that will tell you. Also you can resume from there after > fixing the error should one occur. Also Nik Clayton has an site on making > world . check it out... > http://www.nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk/FreeBSD/make-world/make-world.html > > Excellent source of info... > > > --/The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- > the rest is overhead for the operating system.\-- > --/System Administrator support@techpower.net\-- > > On Sun, 16 May 1999, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > > I have a suggested change for make world that would be easy for anyone > > who knows what they are doing to add. > > > > It would help me a lot if the last thing that make world did was to > > print: > > > > make world finished > > > > Similarly for make buildworld and make installworld. I notice that > > make World for XFree86 has this. > > > > The reason it would help me is because I start a make buildworld, then > > I leave the computer for a while (typically go to sleep as I do it at > > night). Well, for some reason when I get back to it the computer has > > rebooted or has been switched off - many reasons - brownouts, wife switches > > it off, system panics (yes I had those a couple of times). In all those > > times I fairly sure that my make buildworld/make installworld finished, > > but it would be nice to be absolutely sure. > > > > Thanks, Stephen > > > > -- > > > > Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu > > 307 Math Science Building stephen@showme.missouri.edu > > Department of Mathematics stephen@missouri.edu > > University of Missouri-Columbia > > Columbia, MO 65211 > > USA > > > > Phone (573) 882 4540 > > Fax (573) 882 1869 > > > > http://math.missouri.edu/~stephen > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu 307 Math Science Building stephen@showme.missouri.edu Department of Mathematics stephen@missouri.edu University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO 65211 USA Phone (573) 882 4540 Fax (573) 882 1869 http://math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message