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Re: Nevermind (was compiling without a terminal)

2003-08-10 10:27:11
At 08:49 2003-08-10 -0500, David W. Tamkin wrote:
1. Nicing it spreads the same load over a longer duration; whether that's better depends on the sysadmin's opinion.

IMO, for a one-off command, I'd just as soon take a short term hit and be done with it. This is particularly true of commands which may consume a lot of memory resources, which you'd rather were not tied up for long.

2. Since I can't log into that machine, it's a pain (constant tweaking of procmail recipes and reissuing of trigger messages) to find out whether its find supports "-ls" -- which, by the way, I've never heard of before.

( echo "To: my_own address" ; echo "Subject: find manpage" ; man find ) | \
        $SENDMAIL my_own_address

Then again, -perm -001 would remove the need for any ls functions.

Well, the output from ls is useful just the same. I suggested -perm in a previous post, since it'd reduce the number of potential mis-hits.

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