Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 23:14:03 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Kian Mohageri <kian.mohageri@gmail.com>, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup (revisited) Message-ID: <20070513201402.GB22152@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <46476700.6010101@freebsd.org> References: <464464BB.3090100@freebsd.org> <20070511152646.g6n5r7k2tcw00ow4@webmail.leidinger.net> <464476D3.3090001@freebsd.org> <4645173A.2040008@freebsd.org> <fee88ee40705121214ldd26976yd860e9e067d7cb6a@mail.gmail.com> <20070512205110.U24765@fledge.watson.org> <20070513024030.GE2364@dan.emsphone.com> <20070513031807.GA6437@kobe.laptop> <46476700.6010101@freebsd.org>
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On 2007-05-13 14:29, Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> wrote: >On 05/12/07 22:18, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> I am kind of old-fashioned in the Robert >> way too, however. If there was a way to minimize the console output >> when services are starting, i.e. to print something like: >> >> [last kernel message] >> >> Booting FreeBSD: dumpon initrandom fsck root hostid mountcritlocal >> var cleanvar random adjkerntz hostname kldxref swap sysctl netif (lo0 >> fxp0) pflog pf routing devd nsswitch devfs syslogd ldconfig named >> auditd tmp cleartmp dmesg virecover local motd ntpd powerd syscons >> sshd sendmail cron securelevel power_profile inetd >> >> foo login: >> >> where each rc.d script would only print its name if it *was* enabled >> with xxx_enable, optionally followed by a parenthesized list of >> single-word status messages for each subscript/component), would be >> really neat. >> >> Is there any easy way we can 'tune' the fancy script to support the >> current output style, a very brief style like above, and then a fancy >> colorful style, depending on an rc.conf setting? > > I think the rc_fancy patch could be pretty easily tweaked to do exactly > what you say. Yeah, that was my impression from skimming through the changes :) > I might give it a go, and add that as another option to it. Maybe > then the variable should change to rc_style_* instead? Can I help with testing or even writing the necessary changes?
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