Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 03:57:11 +0300 From: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>, Matteo Riondato <matteo@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/defaults periodic.conf Message-ID: <20060131005711.GB16211@comp.chem.msu.su> In-Reply-To: <20060130235717.J95776@fledge.watson.org> References: <200601301233.k0UCXiKq085748@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060130123525.GD83922@FreeBSD.org> <20060130215816.GC91655@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20060130235717.J95776@fledge.watson.org>
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On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 11:58:19PM +0000, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > >On Monday, 30 January 2006 at 15:35:25 +0300, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > >>On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 12:33:44PM +0000, Matteo Riondato wrote: > >>M> matteo 2006-01-30 12:33:44 UTC > >>M> > >>M> FreeBSD src repository > >>M> > >>M> Modified files: > >>M> etc/defaults periodic.conf > >>M> Log: > >>M> Make df output in periodic mail human readable > >> > >>Thanks! > > > >*sigh* > > > >Not everybody is human. > > My daily script parsers certainly aren't. I quite like being able to pull > in a mailbox of old daily output and plot disk space use over time. The > problem with df -h is that as the numbers get bigger, the granularity > becomes very, very coarse. I.e., you can only see changes at 1GB > granularity for big disks, so you can't actually usefully track in any > detail daily usage rates. I think that if the war of computers against humans ever begins, it will break out from an event like this commit. And then some geek folks will certainly come down on the side of computers. The granularity of "df -h" is too coarse even to, ahem, some readers of the list, keep alone the scripts. Quite naturally, they dread being treated as inadequately human some day soon. To help keep peace, let's support the campaign against denying computers their right to get complete and uncensored information in plain text or, under very special conditions, XML :-) -- Yar
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