Kent West wrote: > I'm forever needing to know when I did something. Usually not to fix a > problem, but to build a context from which I can remember something > else. ("Let's see, I know I paid the electric bill online the same day I > installed "starvoyager"; when was that?" as a trivial and hypothetical > example.)
> So again, we're simply back to the idea that sudo provides no benefit to > you, but it does to me. Something tells me that this isn't a universally held benefit nor, again, is it one that is limited to sudo. I don't use sudo and yet I could tell you exactly when I installed starvoyager. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log# zgrep starvoyager * | grep INSTALL aptitude.1.gz:[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] starvoyager-data aptitude.1.gz:[INSTALL] starvoyager [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log# zless aptitude.1.gz [ snip of output to relevant lines ] Aptitude 0.2.15.9: log report Wed Aug 31 15:05:23 2005 [ snip more lines ] [INSTALL] starvoyager Yup, on Aug. 31st at 3:05pm I installed starvoyager. Didn't need sudo to tell me that. ;P -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. -------------------------------+---------------------------------------------
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