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Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 08:19:55 -0600
From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, bde@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Annoying mtree messages..
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> I've long been annoyed by mtree output of the form:
> 
> mtree -deU -f /a/src-current/etc/mtree/BSD.usr.dist -p /usr
> local:  user (3, 0, modified)
>         gid (7, 0, modified)
> missing: ./libdata/stallion (created)
> missing: ./obj (created)
> missing: ./share/calendar/ru_SU.KOI8-R (created)
> missing: ./src (not created: File exists)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> These spew out intermixed with the creations and valid permission
> adjustments and make them hard to see.  I would like to propose that
> we make nuke all the "(not blah: File exists)" messages from mtree
> (unless you put it into verbose mode or something) so as to get more
> readable output from it in the future.
> 
> Any objections?

None here.