Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux

On 2024-11-17 19:07, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 17:17:37 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
 

Horses for courses.  Never underestimate the value of a few printf()s
sprinkled here and there (or log file writes if you're really headless).
  I'm still a fan of makefiles.

 I'm a dinosaur so my preferred technique is either printf or log files.
For production code I've sometimes created a sequence of log statements
that can be turned on with a flag that are a narrative of what's going on.
My goal is a support person can read the file and see where the problem
occurs. Often it is a configuration issue they can fix.
 The nice part is the technique can be used with any language and is
effective where a debugger isn't available.

The other day a daemon program spewed 2 gigabytes of log entries, all almost identical (the filename changed). The program was tracker-extract.
Currently there are many programs that spew chat like there is no tomorrow to syslog :-/
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Cheers, Carlos.