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BUILDIT(8) System Manager's Manual BUILDIT(8) NAME buildit -- time a command, log its output and mail notification when fin- ished SYNOPSIS buildit [-m] -l logfile command ... DESCRIPTION The buildit command is a trivial wrapper script for running commands unat- tended. buildit will start the given command using time(1); log the stdout and stderr of the command in the given logfile; wait for termination of the command while printing its output on the terminal; and then optionally mail the head and tail of the logfile to the calling user. The date(1) command is called before and after the command so that there is a start and end date of the process in the logfile. OPTIONS The options are as follows: -m do not send mail when finished. -l logfile log stdin and stderr to this logfile. If the logfile already exists, it is moved to logfile.old. EXAMPLES Here are typical usages of the buildit command: buildit -l /var/src/install.out make installworld | whereintheworld buildit -l trace.log povray +iscene +oscene.out DIAGNOSTICS Exit status is 0 on success, and 1 if the command fails for one of the fol- lowing reasons: -l parameter mandatory No logfile has been chosen. COMPATIBILITY The mail(1) command is called to send email, with the -s flag to set the subject. This might not work equally on all systems. SEE ALSO time(1), wait(1), head(1), tail(1), mail(1), date(1), kill(1), whereinthe- world(8). HISTORY The buildit manual page was first written for worldtools 1.2 AUTHORS The buildit command and this manual page were written by The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx>. BUGS buildit might leave stray processes running, even after being interrupted. This is due to a bug in sh since calling trap from a subshell has no ef- fect. See the file test_trap.sh in the source distribution for an example. FreeBSD ports 15.quarterly December 9, 2003 BUILDIT(8)
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