Alternatives to Fedora Core, was: [RULE] APT, YUM...

[Gabriel M. Beddingfield]

On Sunday 01 August 2004 16:44, Da Worm wrote:
> Does anyone know a quick script I can pass each of my command lines
> that will log the start and stop time of each process, so that if I go away
> and come back, I'll know how long something took?

This may be coming to you a bit late... but since I'm also working on a gentoo 
install on a 486-66MHz/16MB/1.2GB, I've been playing with this a bit.

There's two ways I've found:
1. time(1), as Paul mentioned.  However, when I compiled the kernel via:
# time make dep && make bzImage modules modules_install
it didn't give me the time when it was finished.  But for your garden variety 
'emerge' and 'tar' commands it worked fine.

2. date(1) is a good alternative.  It can be used like this:
# make dep && make bzImage modules modules_install; date
the ';' makes it like an on-the-fly script, so after it's done it just prints 
out the date.  This seems to work a little more reliably for me.

HTH!

-- 
Gabriel M. Beddingfield
gabriel at teuton.org

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