From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Apr 27 13:58:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from empty1.ekahuna.com (empty1.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B68E837B41A for ; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 13:58:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc-02 (pc02.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.197]) by empty1.ekahuna.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 13:58:37 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" Organization: The Electric Kahuna Organization To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 13:58:36 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: General Buildworld request Reply-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Message-ID: <20020427205837386.AAA803@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Whenever I run buildworld, buildkernel, mergemaster, installworld or installkernel I use tee to redirect the output to a log file in case I need to troubleshoot a problem or check what was updated. I also timestamp the beginning of the process by sending the output of 'date' to the top of each logfile. For some time now, the kernel build process has internally echoed the start time at the beginning of the process. Since I have to think that knowing how long the build process takes is interesting to most people who have to keep machines updated, is it too much to ask that "buildworld" adopt the same practice as "buildkernel" and echo a timestamp at the beginning, so I don't have to do it manually each time in order to track how long the process takes? (stamping the end might also be handy, although by default one can just look at the file timestamp, unless it gets changed for some reason) Thx, Phil -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message