tags 683654 +moreinfo thanks Le jeudi, 2 août 2012 16.38:41, Teodor a écrit : > In Debian the recommendation for all init scripts is to check the variable > VERBOSE from /etc/default/rcS and only print a message on console only if > this variable is not 0.
From the content of the debian-policy package, I don't think that's true; can you point me to where this recommendation comes from ? > This should be adopted by init-functions too, at least for some of the > functions that print [info] tags. As only the init scripts themselves can know which of the messages handed to the log_msg_* functions are important or not, I think the responsability of handling an eventual VERBOSE variable is upon the individual iniscripts and not upon lsb-base. Le mardi, 7 août 2012 11.55:40, Dmitry Smirnov a écrit : > Is that correct that [info] messages are only printed by 'log_action_msg'? Correct. > It may be used for messages like "service is already running" and I'm not > sure if we want to suppress such messages. Indeed, there's no way to differentiate useful from useless log messages. I think that the fact that a call to log_*_msg always leads to having a message printed is actually a feature and a characteristic of these shell functions. Changing this interface to start printing messages conditionally is a quite intrusive change IMHO. Although I would have been tempted to directly tag +wontfix or mark the bug - done, I'm hereby tagging as +moreinfo to see if I can get convinced. Cheers, OdyX -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
