PREGGERS

OK, I’ve been a bad boy and not blogged since I got back from my honeymoon. So let me re-start things by saying that my wife is pregnant :jawdrop: The Marples line will continue, against all the odds! Needless to say, both sets of parents were delighted! And yes, my Mum did the predictable thing and burst into tears- awww, bless her cottons! We’ve already had the first scan and Baby (working title) is due on the 25th of Jan 2008.
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MARRIED

Got married yesterday to the girl of my dreams :) Don’t bother emailing me as I’m off to Italy to have the time of my life :DBut feel free to post your messages here for me to read when I get back ;)

So here am I

Getting married this weekend! :jawdrop: :jawdrop: :jawdrop: :jawdrop: :jawdrop: :jawdrop: :jawdrop: :jawdrop: :jawdrop: As such, I’m away for a month so don’t expect any prompt replies to anything ;)

baselayout-2- prefixed instead of buffered output

baselayout buffers einfo and friends output when running in parallel, so messages don’t get mixed up with other services. It does this by storing each einfo command in a file and then processes them when it obtains a lock. baselayout-2 now buffers stdout and stderr to a file which means the errors are aligned too, so the output should be pretty much perfect. This is not without any downsides. Firstly, the buffer files take space.
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Slacking

OK, so I’m a slacker as I’ve not blogged for over a month now :(However, I have been a very busy beaver! baselayout-2 is nearing completion. The only outstanding bug I know of is a service timeout of the local resolver when using resolvconf and parallel startup. All init scripts on my workstations and personal servers have been de-bashified and most of them bumped. A few have not been bumped- nscd (glibc) being one of them.
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