Initscripts and tput

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 08:07:08PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 14:56 -0400, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> 
> > After a long session hacking initscripts today, I realized that we are
> > relying on tput to get ansi control characters.  This is not bad except
> > that tput is in /usr/bin/ and /usr may not be available to use before
> > mounting filesystems.  There is a couple solutions as i see it:
> > 
> > 1. move tput from /usr/bin to /bin in the terminfo-bin package
> > 2. fall back to hardcoded ansi control characters (may not work on some
> > strange terminals)
> > 3. other solution...
> > 
> Why are we using ansi control characters?

In order to beautify the boot sequence (right-aligned success/failure
indications, highlighted failures, etc.).

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 - mdz