Warner Losh writes:
> > I'm really interested in hearing from people who actively use
> > atime on a regular basis for non-trivial purposes. What are
> > the modern use cases for atime?
> The consensus was we'd fix it in the installer.
Sure, but my question still stands. I'm genuinely curious
> > I do not have a strong opinion w.r.t. atime, but I do believe that
> > changing the default would be a POLA violation.
I'm not prepared to just accept that at face value.
I can't think of a single instance in at least the last three decades
where I have actually used or needed atime for *anyt
Olivier Certner writes:
> I've never found any compelling reason in most uses to enable "atime", except
> perhaps local mail but as addressed in other answers it is a relic of the pa
> st mostly irrelevant today. And its drawbacks are well known and can be seri
> ous.
When UNIX ran on PDP-11s a
Dan Mack writes:
> I'm wondering if anyone can help point me at a good way to continously
> capture every inbound and outbound connection made to a freebsd system.
Assuming "connection" means "log every TCP connection setup" probably
the quickest way is to tcpdump every TCP packet with both SYN
