2012/8/8 Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <[email protected]>: > Le jeudi, 2 août 2012 16.38:41, Teodor a écrit : >> In Debian the recommendation for all init scripts is to check the variable >> VERBOSE from /etc/default/rcS and only print a message on console only if >> this variable is not 0. > > From the content of the debian-policy package, I don't think that's true; can > you point me to where this recommendation comes from ?
I don't know about any written policy, but I suppose that a long standing variable like VERBOSE should be somewhere. At least on rcS(5) it says: VERBOSE Setting this option to no (in lower case) will make the boot process a bit less verbose. Setting this option to yes will make the boot process a bit more verbose. I've only seen this recommendation in /etc/init.d/skeleton: # Description: This file should be used to construct scripts to be # placed in /etc/init.d. >> This should be adopted by init-functions too, at least for some of the >> functions that print [info] tags. > > As only the init scripts themselves can know which of the messages handed to > the log_msg_* functions are important or not, I think the responsability of > handling an eventual VERBOSE variable is upon the individual iniscripts and > not upon lsb-base. I've seen a big difference between «sysvinit» and «systemd» with "quiet" on the cmdline. I think that "quiet" will make VERBOSE=no at boot and shutdown, but if so many init scripts do not check this setting we see too much messages at boot. That's why I thought a first step would be to add a check for log_msg_* functions that print [info] messages. Cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
