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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Sorcery VOYEUR default
  • Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 13:39:53 -0800

Quoting Vladimír Marek <vlmarek AT volny.cz>:
> Yes, generally this is a nice idea. Two things against:
> a) time
> cast mozilla takes it's time, and people may start to be nervous after
> tree hours. They can always look at `top`, but I'd rather that not be the
"fix".

Perhaps some method of letting the user know that cast is doing something? A
spinner, perhaps?

> b) in case of error
> it's nice to see what actually failed

`gaze compile <spell>` should show the latest log (whether it was successful
or
not).

> ad a)
> Isn't there some way to attach to running cast (gaze voyeur or
> something ?) which would display full log on request ?

There is `gaze voyeur` (run as root) which will view the cast as it happens.

> ad b) I haven't seen any errors (not counting my experiments with spell
> system) so far, and in the rare case when shit happens, we could use the
> attach method as in a), right ?

Yep.

-sandalle

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