Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 12:44:34 +1100 From: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au> To: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> Cc: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby), hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot messages (Was: Sun Workshop compiler vs. GCC?) Message-ID: <199702160144.MAA02784@nemeton.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199702160006.QAA26620@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Sun, 16 Feb 1997 11:05:30 +1100 (EDT) Darren Reed wrote: > Another take on starting up is HP-UX 10. Being SVR4, it has run levels > and start/stop scripts. HP have added "startmsg" and "stopmsg" to all > their scripts, so that when you boot, it prints a menu type listing and > displays "OK", "BUSY", "N/A", "FAIL" in the little check box for each > rc script. When everything works, it is quite pretty. Syslog messages to the console and anything that talks directly to /dev/tty make a mess of it. A "splash screen" is really going to have to be graphical to work reliably. Does anyone have a nice banner for xdm with the FreeBSD logo? This is another way to present a more "professional" appearance with low impact to the existing code. I had thought that HP had wasted their money on the pretty boot code(*). I should know better; I always try to print management graphs in colour. Regards, Giles * I'd have preferred a fixed up lpsched, for example, or IP aliases in a different subnet, or a 'status' option to mt, or even a -a flag for ifconfig. Or perl5 in /usr/contrib, or tcpd, or a http daemon, or a COPS run before they cut the distribution CD, or support for IPFilter, or ... world peace, maybe. :)
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