Sambal

I added a new host to snapback a while ago and started getting these horrible messages mailed to me by cron every six hours.  The entire body of the email was:

–link-dest arg does not exist: ../hourly.1

I finally fixed it today.

The problem?  Snapback was backing up an empty directory.  One solution would be to remove the directory from snapback.  I chose to instead create an empty file ($ touch empty) in the directory because I don’t want to have to come back and re-set up snapback for that directory if it ever gets populated.

I’ll see if its fixed in four more hours.

You know you’ve been coding for the Intel platform too long when “eax” looks more like a word than “wax”.

I typed “wax”; it looked wrong, so I semi-consciously backspaced out and retyped it as “eax”. Which looked more correct. Then my conscious mind realized I really did want “wax” so I changed it back.