From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 21 04:14:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1468116A400 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 04:14:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zombyfork@gmail.com) Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.187]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BB3C43D45 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 04:14:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from zombyfork@gmail.com) Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id m18so71045nfc for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:14:19 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=Z7U0n9X6WsAVnJGg5GSA4rV5IX1RskTJcexnb6R989eOKQuHREPJU6cZSab8M69h9F3O1Jclf/g7ztd4RRfLq/J3mNWtaObMjTDqFA6ASNmB4r5utZu/DH3Os6JMzmkrcbFNb/1m7w2jpqhj3adLX1cBoF2P7cDZyUIdDZLdR2U= Received: by 10.49.54.17 with SMTP id g17mr977517nfk; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 20:19:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.48.217.6 with HTTP; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 20:19:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <346a80220604202019g3e3aaea5lfe19bcabaaf65c1d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:19:50 -0400 From: "Coleman Kane" To: "Eric Anderson" In-Reply-To: <4447B876.4010606@centtech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20060419040716.4F26116A45F@hub.freebsd.org> <20060419095207.GC19339@wjv.com> <44462C07.4030903@centtech.com> <444634C1.9080206@centtech.com> <44464BBF.5040801@centtech.com> <32256.194.179.68.110.1145535362.squirrel@webmail.loquefaltaba.com> <4447B876.4010606@centtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, David Barbero Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC - v6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: cokane@cokane.org List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 04:14:21 -0000 On 4/20/06, Eric Anderson wrote: > > David Barbero wrote: > > > --- snip --- > Yep, that's a bug. I think it's fixed in v7, available here: > > http://www.googlebit.com/freebsd/patches/rc_fancy.patch-7 > > along with a few other suggestions from others. > > > > Another one of the failures that I have seen is that with this patch > they > > show all the services, they are or not formed to start, I believe that > > single they would have to appear the services that are formed to start > and > > not all those that can start. > > If the service is run on bootup, it shows it. It was still being run > before, there was just no output previously. It would be pretty easy to > have an option to not print these, maybe an rc_fancy_verbose option. Is > this desirable to most? > > > In addition the services that are not formed to start appear like [ OK > ], > > in the case of appearing these, I believe that they would have to leave > > with another denomination that is not [ OK ]. > > > I'm not sure what you mean here. Can you give me an example? > > > > Another failure that I have seen is that when leaving the message > syslogd > > this sample failure, but this service starts without problems, but show= s > > it as if it gave failure... > > My syslogd looks clean, and doesn't give a false failure. I'm not sure > how to look into this - can you confirm that it truly is passing, but > giving the wrong message, or is it that the rc subsystem thinks it's > failing but appears to work ok? > > > > In principle this is what I have seen at first sight on the patch. > > > Thanks for all the feedback and testing! > > > Eric I have modified the patch as follows: Made a bunch of the settings tunable by the user (message text and field widths). It is availalbe at http://www.cokane.org/files/rc_fancy-cokane2.patch -- Coleman Kane