Linux-Hams archive - October 1998: Re: loggedin file
Re: loggedin file
Richard Adams (terhi.victor@logonet.com)
Tue, 6 Oct 1998 22:56:34 +0000 (GMT)
According to Gerd: While burning my CPU.
>
> Hello Tomi, hello all,
>
> > > > > > var/ax25/node/loggedin:no such file or directory
> > > > > >
> >
> > Node used to create this file if it didn't exist but it seems I have
> > broken the feature since. It has gone unnoticed because make install
> > should create it. Anyway I'll look into fixing that.
> >
> >
> > The educational message of the day: To create an empty file you use
> > "touch". See touch(1).
> >
> Thank you very much for this hint, sometimes I forget what
> treasures are sleeping in my /bin and /sbin directories :-) , anyway,
> under DOS, there's a tool with the same name which is actually
> only used to change timestamps for files. So I didn't remember
> what touch under Linux can do....
I cant find my last mail about this so possably i sent the example from the
./pms/Makefile however ./node/Makefile uses touch one would have thought you
would have seen it.
>
> 73s, Gerd
>
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Regards Richard.
vzoryre@sscicy.cicy.mx