Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 11:24:40 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: "Charles Howse" <chowse@charter.net>, "'ODHIAMBO Washington'" <wash@wananchi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: scripting the buildworld/installworld process Message-ID: <200309011124.40119.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <003301c370b4$af41b8d0$04fea8c0@moe> References: <003301c370b4$af41b8d0$04fea8c0@moe>
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On Monday 01 September 2003 11:13 am, Charles Howse wrote: > Well, here are my current versions of the update scripts. > I hope they are complicated enough for everyone. <grin> > > Contrary to Kent's suggestion, I'm only logging the last 10 lines of > the important commands. I defer to his experience and knowledge, but > I can't see the value in logging 7500 lines of code that executed > correctly. Let's just get the last 10 lines, since that's where any > errors will be. > > Comments, suggestions, flames? > I don't think 10 is enough. Wash has a buildworld problem on current and, on his listing, you would only make it about half way through the error 1 messages and may miss the one that means something. I log for a different reason. If you had one die and I didn't, I want to be able to show you that I made it past where yours errored off. -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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