From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 18 17:43:32 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 B4FD616A402 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:43:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AC6943D45 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:43:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k3IHhPxe006229; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:43:25 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <44452532.40703@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:43:14 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060402) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gordon Bergling References: <444515C8.3030406@centtech.com> <20060418165709.GA17705@central.0xfce3.net> In-Reply-To: <20060418165709.GA17705@central.0xfce3.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1404/Tue Apr 18 05:03:40 2006 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:43:32 -0000 Gordon Bergling wrote: > Hi, > > * Thus spake Eric Anderson (anderson@centtech.com): >> I've made a patch to /etc/rc.subr that makes the startup/shutdown rc >> scripting look similar to other OS's (many different linux distros, >> HP-UX, etc), but without color. >> >> The patch shouldn't break anything, and is only enabled if you have this >> in your /etc/rc.conf: >> >> rc_fancy="YES" >> >> Several of the /etc/rc.d/* scripts send output to stdout, so that could >> be cleaned up a bit if needed, but for now I tried to keep the patch as >> minimal as possible. >> >> This is still a first pass, so please give feedback. > > A short try on my notebook shows some errors. > I don't want to let this email getting too big, so I put the "dmesg -a" > output online. http://generic.0xfce3.net/dmesg-fancy.txt > > BTW, the patch applied cleanly. Thanks for the feedback! Looks like I made an erroneous assumption that the wc, expr, and printf tools found in /usr/bin and /bin would be available through boot, but that isn't the case on systems with those file systems separate from /. I'm not sure how to resolve some of these issues, since I don't know of a way to do those functions in csh without them. I'm open to suggestions here from anyone. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------