[Toybox] Yes, I'm aware dreamhost has deleted the mailing list web archive again.

[enh]

https://github.com/landley/toybox/commit/2d893a4077c12732238f5a9fc9c31fda8bcc3ed9
fixes the cut and chmod tests for me. thanks!

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 11:19 AM, enh <enh at google.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 1:58 PM, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
>>
>> On 10/11/2017 12:36 PM, enh wrote:
>>> On Sep 28, 2017 22:47, "Rob Landley" wrote:
>>> >
>>> > It's an annual event with them. They're deeply incompetent.
>>>
>>> Seems like it's not being updated even now... "*Note:*The archive search
>>> index was last rebuilt at Friday, 29 Sep 2017 19:07:57 PDT. Any postings
>>> after that will not be found by a search. Index rebuild is usally done
>>> once every 24 hours for this list."
>>
>> Did I say deeply incompetent?
>>
>>   https://twitter.com/landley/status/917549056544604160
>>
>> I meant deeply, _deeply_ incompetent.
>>
>> Seriously, they've done this at least once a year since something like
>> 2010, usually leaving another hole in the mailing list archive when they
>> (eventually) restore from a stale backup and think that fixes it.
>>
>> I used to collect my interactions with them:
>>
>>   http://landley.net/dreamhost.txt
>>   http://landley.net/dreamhost2.txt
>>
>> But haven't in years because there's no point. They never learn because
>> I'm never talking to the same people. Even in the same thread, each
>> message is replied to by whichever junior intern is on duty right then,
>> with no institutional memory at all.
>>
>> They're decent about the actual web hosting part (it's a static website
>> I have fully backed up and rsync, it's hard to screw that up and "fire
>> up an empty container and restore the data from a backup" generally _is_
>> the right answer to something going wrong there). They're cheap, they
>> don't meter bandwidth or have a hard storage limit, and I do _not_ have
>> time to try to administer my own servers these days (work has gotten
>> _exciting_ again, I'm trying to get this release out before I get
>> kidnapped by j-core stuff for a few months)...
>>
>> But it would be really really nice if I could run a mailman instance on
>> the container I ssh into instead of having them run lists.landley.net as
>> a shared "service" for me, which I have to administer through a web page
>> instead of the command line.
>>
>> Right, back to trying to test and checkin cut.c. The new version of
>> which can do this!
>
> the new cut seems to have broken the chmod tests (on systems that
> always use the toybox cut).
>
> 4 of the cut tests seem to be failing too.
>
>>   $ awk '{print $2" "$7" "$5}' LICENSE | head -n 5
>>   (C) Landley by
>>
>>   to distribute modify,
>>   with hereby fee
>>
>>   l$ ./cut -DF 2,7,5 LICENSE | head -n 5
>>   (C) Landley by
>>
>>   to distribute modify,
>>   with hereby fee
>>
>> (It's not awk, but it's better than nothing.)
>>
>> Rob
>
>
>
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