On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 07:56:14AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Wed, 4 May 2005 01:34:17 +0200, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 12:05:19AM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > >> I think it would be better if we simply made rc capture initscripts' > >> standard output (and exit status) and formatted it in such a way that > >> bootup messages were prettier. > > > >That sounds like an ugly and error-prone hack to me. Not something we > >want one of our most important systems to be working with. > > The fact that there is much more than one init script which writes > additional output in between the policy conformant "Starting foo... > Done.", giving "Starting foo... blurb > blurb > Done." is one of the most annoying facts in Debian, IMO.
I won't deny that; but a) using LSB init scripts won't magically fix that, and b) that's one more reason to not rely on parsing of output to implement this. > Additionally, it is bad that on systems which neither have a serial > console nor a monitor attached init script output is inaccessible. False. See /etc/default/bootlogd (although it is not without problems) -- The amount of time between slipping on the peel and landing on the pavement is precisely one bananosecond -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
