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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Fafa Diliha Romanova <fteg@london.com>
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Subject: Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d scripts: echo on startup
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On 2005-03-10 06:45, Fafa Diliha Romanova <fteg@london.com> wrote:
> hello.
>
> i'm just wondering how to deal with the way the rc.d scripts echo on startup.
> like, some of the rc.d scripts contain the echo " daemon", while some echo "daemon",
> so on startup whereas it should look like:
>
> daemon daemon deamon
>
> it may look like:
>
> daemondaemon daemon 1.2 Loaded successfully!daemon
>
> is there a uniform way to identify echos and make them display properly?
> thanks!

I usually edit the offending scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d:

	# cd /usr/local/etc/rc.d
	# vi *

and make them all use a uniform notification:

	echo -n " foo"

This does require a bit of shell scripting foo, but it shouldn't be
that hard.  If it proves more difficult than you expected, feel free
to post the script here or personally to me and ask for help.

- Giorgos