quiet initscripts

[John Richard Moser]

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Taco Witte wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 17:18:10 -0500, John Richard Moser
> <nigelenki at comcast.net> wrote:
> [snip]
> 
>>You know what's also nice?  Look at Gentoo and Mandrake, and how
>>colorful the start-up is.  Colors actually help make things flow better,
>>and make it easier to read than the wall of crap that shoots past when
>>Debian or Ubuntu boots.
>>
>>Colorified initscripts would be nice.  Perhaps something for someone to
>>take up if they're very bored.  Colored prompts can also be nice.
> 
> 
> Funny you mention colors -- I'm coming from Gentoo and one of the
> first bugs I posted here was about colored prompts (it turned out
> they're already there if you edit the default .bashrc, see #4711).
> But for the initscripts: I think it's even better to limit the output
> to what's really necessary because that way important information
> already gets enough attention.
> 

Never had a problem with this in Gentoo.  Things were all green,
red-flagged with red "FAIL" markers if there was a problem.

> 
>>>Just for
>>>the sake of discussion, I've attached a diff for
>>>/lib/lsb/init-functions (package lsb-base) that I'm using on my
>>>computer. (The change can be enabled by adding a line REALQUIET=yes to
>>>/etc/default/rcS; this may not be the cleanest solution.) A problem of
>>>this diff is that it's not really clear what caused an error if an
>>>error occurs in a script.
>>
>>And in the same way as colored inits, this probably violates LSB :)  but
>>you could always RFC them up to LSB to see if they'll allow it for their
>>next one too.  *shrug*
> 
> 
> Well, I don't know how they specify things, but this diff doesn't
> change the interface for init scripts -- it just doesn't show
> informational messages. (Or that's the intention ;-) )
> 

Ahh.  Not sure if that's in spec or not though.  Standards can be fairly
strict or fairly easy.

> 
>>>What do you think about this idea? I'm aware of neat graphical splash
>>>screens, but this might be something that can be done on servers as
>>>well.
>>
>>Quietness~~~
> 
> 
> :-)
> 
> Kind regards,
> Taco
> 

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