Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:29:52 +0300 From: Mike Makonnen <mtm@wubethiopia.com> To: src-committers@freebsd.org Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r179946 - head/etc Message-ID: <485F34D0.1080002@wubethiopia.com> In-Reply-To: <200806230509.m5N599qK060278@svn.freebsd.org> References: <200806230509.m5N599qK060278@svn.freebsd.org>
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Mike Makonnen wrote: > Author: mtm > Date: Mon Jun 23 05:09:09 2008 > New Revision: 179946 > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/179946 > > Log: > Move the diagnostic output when the rc.subr(8) glue automatically starts a > service behind $rc_quiet. Instead, output a warning if the pre-command > routine or the command itself failed. Arguably, it's more useful to know when > a command failed to start than it is to have an endless list of > "Starting ...." lines[1]. > > [1] - This change actually helped me to discover a bug in rc.d/{lockd,statd} > (fixed in r179941) that used to fail silently before. > > Modified: > head/etc/rc.subr > This ends the bulk of the commits to reduce console-spamming by rc.d during bootup. It should greatly improve the signal-to-noise ratio on your console :-). I've been running these changes for a while without problems, but if I've missed something or you think a script should be more (or less) verbose, please let me know. Cheers. -- Mike Makonnen | GPG-KEY: http://people.freebsd.org/~mtm/mtm.asc mtm @ FreeBSD.Org | AC7B 5672 2D11 F4D0 EBF8 5279 5359 2B82 7CD4 1F55 FreeBSD | http://www.freebsd.org
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