From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 21 12: 2:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from forrie.net (forrie.net [216.67.14.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5FDF37B491 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 12:02:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from forrie@forrie.com) Received: from boom.forrie.com (forrie.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.132.133]) by forrie.net with id f1LK2Dl61853 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 15:02:13 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.2.20010221145752.00a97030@216.67.14.69> X-Sender: forrie@216.67.14.69 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 15:01:54 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Forrest Aldrich Subject: Mergemaster Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been using these args for mergmaster: # mergemaster -v -t /tmp/merge.mmdd -w 120 2>&1 | tee /tmp/merge.root We have these out-of-band console modems (serial) that we connect to, in order to perform system updates. The problem we're running into is that when mergemaster scrolls stuff (diffs) across the screen (especially sendmail.cf diffs), the characters cause the OOB modem to lock up. Last night, I ended up having to travel to our co-lo and do maintenance from the screens through 4am. Not a happy camper. I'm wondering if there is some way to suppress the build or comparison/diff of certain packages... or even the scrolling diff output of mergemaster. For example, we build and maintain our own sendmail and named. Even though we have /etc/make.conf configured not to build sendmail, we still run into the need to diff when performing mergemaster. It seems there must be a way to avoid this. I'm sure I'm not the only one bitten by this little problem. Luckily it doesn't happen a lot, but when it does (at 4:00am) it really does :) Thanks, _F To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message