Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 23:03:55 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@zer0.org> To: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> Cc: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ufs/ffs ffs_softdep.c softdep.h Message-ID: <20000625230355.E79299@azazel.zer0.org> In-Reply-To: <20000625222832.A19646@wopr.caltech.edu>; from mph@astro.caltech.edu on Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 10:28:32PM -0700 References: <200006221927.MAA49212@freefall.freebsd.org> <39532EE4.B536C551@3-cities.com> <86wvjgbu09.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org> <3953978B.D3EAD145@3-cities.com> <20000625210029.A79299@azazel.zer0.org> <20000625222832.A19646@wopr.caltech.edu>
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On 2000-06-25 22:28 -0700, Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 09:00:29PM -0700, Gregory Sutter wrote: > > > > worked. This time cvsup didn't update the files. If people run cvsup > > > as an unattended cron job, they will never see the two failure > > > messages. > > > > That sounds like an awfully good reason not to run it as a cron job. > > Instead, why not put it in /etc/periodic/daily? Then it will get > > logged and mailed to root. > > You're both forgetting that cron does mail the output to the > user... > > I get the output in my mail everyday, and promptly delete it without > looking. Do you also delete your daily system logs without looking? Putting it at the end of the daily periodic tasks gets it included in that single message, which (since you're already reading the rest of the daily log already, right?) encourages reading and saving of the data. Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter I got a Pentium II for my girlfriend. mailto:gsutter@zer0.org Good trade, eh? http://www.zer0.org/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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