On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:26:15AM +0200, Frank Schafer wrote: > On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 16:18 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Frank Schafer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > I'm wondering why there are these 4 digit numbers in front of the name > > > of each log file. This makes it hard to find the log for a single > > > package by name. > > > > I could be wrong but it could be the PID of the emerge process. > > > > Maybe ;) but I didn't want to ask where these numbers come from but to > suggest to not have them in the name of the logfile. > It is not the PID. The numbers are consecutive on my machine, which runs hardened... so PID would not be in order.
The four digit number is, I think, is just a simple counter to allow you to keep track of what happened first. For example, when updating inkscape, I get three files, 5840-inkscape-0.42.2.log 5841-inkscape-0.41-r1.log 5841-inkscape-0.42.2.log The first is the unpacking, patching, and outputs from make. The second is from the unmerging of the old version, and the third is from the post-install information. I rather prefer it like this, then having to sort through the log files by date everytime I want to look at them. W -- This is not an optical illusion. It just looks like one. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 31 days, 17:39 -- [email protected] mailing list
