Re: Some improvements to rm(1)

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Brooks Davis wrote: > I think the -x option seems a bit odd. What is the use case? At a > first thought, it seems to raise more questions than it resolves. > I was cleaning up a system a year ago and I had an "rm -rf" traverse into a production NFS mountpoint..

Re: regenerating /var/db/pkg

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 03:21:16PM +0300, Eitan Adler wrote: > > > > Just asking opinions, if people want this, I'll make a patch and > > file a PR. > > > > Is this script correct? We're starting to use SSDs for boot drives in our freebsd boxes. We'd like to have /var on a memory backed FS, but

Re: [PATCH] newsyslog - archive logs with a timestamp

On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 02:24:20PM +0200, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: > I'd rather see an extension for newsyslog which would rotate foo to > foo.2007-08-12.gz, iff rotation is done every day at midnight. Sorry to hijack the thread, but this is something that I've been looking for for a long time as w

Re: Problem with jails after upgrading to 6.1-STABLE

On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 02:09:49PM +0200, Bartosz Giza wrote: > Hi, > > Recently i have upgraded my box to 6.1-STABLE. Before i have had 6.0-STABLE. > > I am running couple of jails on this box and right now something is messed > up with startup scripts or somewhere else. > Worst thing is that i

chmod features: +RW?

Hey, I searched the archives, but haven't seen anything regarding this. I am interested in a feature addition to chmod for the equivalent of +X (Add x bit only if it's a dir), except for read and write (R and W?). I'm not sure how useful W would be - but R would be quite useful for allowing t