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Re: [bug-inetutils] some notes on inetutils-1.8
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Alfred M. Szmidt |
Subject: |
Re: [bug-inetutils] some notes on inetutils-1.8 |
Date: |
Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:15:21 -0400 |
> The following should work to compile only syslogd, as per
> ./configure --help, INSTALL and README.
>
> ./configure --disable-server --disable-clients --enable-syslogd
>
> What `four lines' did you use? Maybe something can be improved.
i just disabled everything i didn't want, which made up four text
lines (rows?) on my monitor. if --enable-syslogd works,
--disable-syslogd=no should work too (by convention), like
--disable-syslogd should be substitutable with
--enable-syslogd=no. using --disable-syslogd=no has the advantage
that one can middle-click (Xorg quick copy/paste) the option from
the configure --help output.
Please show the exact command you used. Did you try the one I suggested?
> what about an iproute implementation (without berkeley-db
> dependency ;)
>
> Would you like to write such a program for us?
would i then ask you for doing it? i'm not in this field of
programming, just maintain a system. sorry.
Someone has to do it, would you like to do so?
> (btw., choosing -? for help and -h for hop on the syslogd
> command line is not a good choice in my eyes. please rethink!)
>
> You will need to have a stronger argument than "I don't like it".
just direct your argument against yourself and ask yourself what
'strong argument' you had for breaking with the
tradition/convention. what you did is inconsistent with thousands
of other command-line tools for *nix (and even for w*ndows) and
thus a pain in the ass for every admin with weak memory!
The `unix' tradition was to not have any help output from programs, -h
was already used for different tools and -? made the most sense to us.
- Re: [bug-inetutils] some notes on inetutils-1.8, (continued)
- Re: [bug-inetutils] some notes on inetutils-1.8, melodramus, 2010/08/17
- Re: [bug-inetutils] some notes on inetutils-1.8, melodramus, 2010/08/17
- Re: [bug-inetutils] some notes on inetutils-1.8, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2010/08/17
- Re: [bug-inetutils] some notes on inetutils-1.8, melodramus, 2010/08/17
- Re: [bug-inetutils] some notes on inetutils-1.8, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2010/08/18
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- Re: [bug-inetutils] some notes on inetutils-1.8, melodramus, 2010/08/17
- Re: [bug-inetutils] some notes on inetutils-1.8, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2010/08/18
- Re: [bug-inetutils] some notes on inetutils-1.8, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2010/08/18
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- Re: [bug-inetutils] some notes on inetutils-1.8, melodramus, 2010/08/17
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- Re: [bug-inetutils] some notes on inetutils-1.8, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2010/08/17
- Re: [bug-inetutils] some notes on inetutils-1.8, melodramus, 2010/08/17
- Re: [bug-inetutils] some notes on inetutils-1.8, melodramus, 2010/08/17
- Re: [bug-inetutils] some notes on inetutils-1.8, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2010/08/18
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- Re: [bug-inetutils] some notes on inetutils-1.8, melodramus, 2010/08/17
Re: [bug-inetutils] some notes on inetutils-1.8, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2010/08/17