[15717] in Athena Bugs
Re: mkserv -v?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Dec 4 19:22:12 1997
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 19:22:10 -0500 (EST)
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, jweiss@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[15713] in Athena Bugs"
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Why does the usage message of mkserv on a sun report the existance of a
-v option that is nowhere documented in the man page?
The honset asnwer to this is probably that no one has touched the
manpage since before I started working on mkserv. It's on my list of
things to look at one of these decades.
Isn't there an option to mkserv to get it to tell me what services I have?
It would be really nice if that function were explicitly given as an
example in the man page.
Not to my knowledge, although you could break the abstraction barrier
and look at /var/server/.services.
It looks like
mkserv update
probably undid all the strange things that happened when I did
mkserv -v
Because of the way mkserv works it makes several passes over things.
In order to insure that everythign works it has to point all of the
links to the packs during the duration of the mkserv. One of the last
things it does is to repoint them back to /ver/server as appropriate.
This is probably what you noticed.
-v is the verbose flag to mkserv, and causes it to display the output
of the synctrees that populate /var/server.
which seemed to change a bunch of files back to sym-links but otherwise
do nothing.
Actually, I think it did the same thing as mkserv -v update, but I'm
not positive of that.
--
Jonathon
