From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 21 7:26:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gw.caamora.com.au (jonath5.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.41.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3450415173 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 07:26:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@gw.caamora.com.au) Received: (from jon@localhost) by gw.caamora.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA12920; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 00:26:17 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jon) Message-ID: <19990922002617.A12895@caamora.com.au> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 00:26:17 +1000 From: jonathan michaels To: Tony Finch Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Make World Time - is it that important References: <19990919230220.A74437@titus.stade.co.uk> <19990920173923.30467@mindspring.net> <19990920173923.30467@mindspring.net> <19990921083952.F11378@caamora.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Tony Finch on Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 01:31:06PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD gw.caamora.com.au 2.2.7-RELEASE i386 X-Mood: i'm alive, if it counts Organisation: Caamora, PO Box 144, Rosebery NSW 1445 Australia Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 01:31:06PM +0100, Tony Finch wrote: > jonathan michaels wrote: > > > >my old faithfull i386dx33 [...] take a whole 10 minutes to build world. > > > >i start the procedure watch it fro about 5 or so minutes as i > >drink my tea then i go to bed. when i wake up in the morning i > >start the breafast and turn on teh screen and then i take 5 > >minutes to get focus, i'm a slow starter, by that time i see > >that its finished properly and i can get on with my life. > > :-) > > I have a couple of scripts which I install on every box that I want to > track -STABLE. One is a wrapper for `make buildworld` that also > cvsups and rebuilds the kernel and sysinstall and does a diff on > /etc. I run it nightly from cron and look at the results in my email > each morning. It almost never fails (and when it does it's me that > broke it). When I feel the need I can run mergemaster and my > installworld script, and I have an up-to-date OS. yup, only i'm not so advanced ... my needs are simple so i just do what needs to be done and it all works out. i do what you do manually, that is type in teh stuff by hand and if i make a mistake my hardware (the old 386) is slwo enough and forgiving enough to let me see whats ggoing one. on the other hand teh 486 is starting to get a bit blurry. when 240 cps was king of teh heap modem speed i could almost keep up. things have changed .. some say fro the better, faster is not always better. warm regards, thx for the reply. cheers jonathan -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia =========================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message