Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:43:14 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Gordon Bergling <gbergling@0xfce3.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC Message-ID: <44452532.40703@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20060418165709.GA17705@central.0xfce3.net> References: <444515C8.3030406@centtech.com> <20060418165709.GA17705@central.0xfce3.net>
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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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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