On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 05:08:06PM +0000, David W Noon wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:00:02 +0100, Willie Wong wrote about Re: > [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?: > > >On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:15:08PM +0000, David W Noon wrote: > >> You run your emerge --sync jobs by hand?!!! > > > >Why is that surprising? > > Because emerge jobs produce copious amounts of output that is difficult > to read as it scrolls past. I much prefer the cron daemon or at daemon > to send me the output as email, so I can scroll backwards and forwards > through it at my leisure.
What output do you actually read from syncs? For builds, is it really wise to do all updates unattended? Also, for builds, there is such a thing as elogs (which allows you to save all messages to /var/log/portage for ease of reading at your leisure. You can even configure it to select what types of messages are saved): I neither need nor want to scroll through pages and pages of mostly useless output only to find the ewarn messages. I'm sure you have a good reason for wanting to do things your way, and I do not claim mine is better. I am just surprised that you sounded surprised to find out some people don't do things your way. > >My laptop does not have an always-on internet > >connection, nevermind it sits silently and off for most of the day. I > >"sync by hand" when I have time, roughly twice each week. > > Well, when your laptop is powered off the cron daemon won't run the > emerge jobs, so that's really a non-issue. Actually, the cron daemon won't run because I don't have a cron daemon installed on the laptop. And I don't have a cron daemon because having periodic jobs only make sense if the computer is likely to be on when cron is triggered. Cheers, W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton