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Date:      Thu, 6 Jul 2000 12:34:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Chris D. Faulhaber" <jedgar@fxp.org>
To:        David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>
Cc:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: /etc/rc.shutdown calls local scripts now
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007061231390.58846-100000@pawn.primelocation.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000706111440.49943A-100000@shell-2.enteract.com>

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On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, David Scheidt wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Linh Pham wrote:
> 
> :> 
> :> Can we have little green "[ OK ]"s as well? :)
> :> 
> :> j/k
> :
> :I hope you are joking... LOL... We don't want Linux emulation to go in
> :that direction.
> 
> 
> HP/UX does something like this.  I find it rather useful, but that may be
> because I have boxes that take almost an hour to boot....
> 

Many Linux distributions do this too.  It seems about as useful as a car's
idiot light(s)...  IMO, I would prefer to see useful information during
boot than that eye-candy.

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