Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:49:33 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: anderson@centtech.com Cc: gbergling@0xfce3.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC Message-ID: <20060418.114933.69380798.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <44452532.40703@centtech.com> References: <444515C8.3030406@centtech.com> <20060418165709.GA17705@central.0xfce3.net> <44452532.40703@centtech.com>
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Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> writes:
: 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.
/bin and /sbin are available through the entire boot. Only things in
/usr are suspect because /usr gets mounted early in the boot process,
but not as early as /.
Warner
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