From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 6 21:38:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1410C16A4CE for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2004 21:38:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from outmx005.isp.belgacom.be (outmx005.isp.belgacom.be [195.238.2.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6030043D2D for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2004 21:38:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from geert@lori.mine.nu) Received: from outmx005.isp.belgacom.be (localhost [127.0.0.1]) with ESMTP id i66Lc3no017116 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2004 23:38:04 +0200 (envelope-from ) Received: from lori.mine.nu (144-27.244.81.adsl.skynet.be [81.244.27.144]) with ESMTP id i66LbvCx017097; Tue, 6 Jul 2004 23:37:57 +0200 (envelope-from ) Received: by lori.mine.nu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 686A4638; Tue, 6 Jul 2004 23:37:56 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 23:37:56 +0200 From: Geert Hendrickx To: Trey Sizemore Message-ID: <20040706213756.GA24722@lori.mine.nu> References: <1089131980.18744.199829372@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20040706164407.GA59386@dan.emsphone.com> <20040706164614.GB59386@dan.emsphone.com> <1089136277.5723.199834758@webmail.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1089136277.5723.199834758@webmail.messagingengine.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i X-GPG-Key: http://www.win.ua.ac.be/~s005085/gnupgkey.txt X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/766C1E92 X-Accept-Language: nl,en cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: Recovering compile after loss of power X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 21:38:17 -0000 On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 01:51:17PM -0400, Trey Sizemore wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 11:46:14 -0500, "Dan Nelson" > said: > > In the last episode (Jul 06), Dan Nelson said: > > > In the last episode (Jul 06), Trey Sizemore said: > > > > I was many hours into a kde3 complilation/installation when the > > > > power went out at the house. :-(. Is the best option here to just > > > > restart the 'make install clean' in the directory again? Will it > > > > 'pick up where it left off'? > > > > > > Yes, although check for and remove 0-byte *.o files first (find . -name > > > -"*.o" size 0). I have occasionally seen them after a crash. > > > > Typo. That command should be: find . -name "*.o" -size 0 > > As an aside, what would I append to the command to likewise remove them > (I assume using some variation of the 'rm' command)? > > Thanks. add this to the find command: -exec rm -f {} \; Check out man find for details. GH