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Date:      Sun, 13 Oct 2002 20:07:46 +0000
From:      Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc
Message-ID:  <20021013200745.GA27804@trit.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021012225619.K16856-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
References:  <200210120721.g9C7LJgs083349@freefall.freebsd.org> <20021012225619.K16856-100000@gamplex.bde.org>

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Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Dima Dorfman wrote:
> 
> > dd          2002/10/12 00:21:19 PDT
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     etc                  rc
> >   Log:
> >   Aesthetics: Most (all?) other messages output at boot time have
> >   trailing periods, so why shouldn't this one?
> >
> >   Revision  Changes    Path
> >   1.322     +1 -1      src/etc/rc
> 
> Um, most don't.  Most are output by device drivers.  It is usually a
> style bug for kernel messages to have a trailing period, and this bug
> is missing in most devices drivers.  About half of the messages in
> /etc/rc follow similar rules.  The exceptions are mostly to terminate
> lists (echo '.').

I probably could have worded my commit message better; when I said
"output at boot time", I meant "output from rc scripts at boot time".
With RCng, output looks like this (partial):

	Updating motd.
	Starting ntpd.
	Configuring syscons: blanktime allscreens.
	...
	Starting moused.
	Starting cron.

All the messages have trailing periods; this commit just makes that
message, which is only output in the RCng case, consistent with the
rest.

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