On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 01:13:09PM -0500, Nick Cabatoff wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone knows of work being done to make sysvinit > capable of logging the output of the rc scripts? HP-UX does this very > nicely, such that instead of seeing what the script writes on stdout > you get a curses-style table of scripts and their results, e.g. > > Starting NIS server ................ OK > Starting NFS server ................ *FAIL* > > I don't really think it's worth having as fancy a display as HP-UX > does, since I wouldn't want my boot sequence to fail just because > curses or slang or whatever broke, but you could get almost as nice a > readout without. And you could still have the script output written > to rc.log, which is what I'm really looking for.
Take a look at recent (6.0?, 6.2) RedHat init sequences. I believe they do what you're looking for, even to the extent of color-coding "OK" as green and "FAIL" as red. Not sure of logging, though IIRC there was some discussion of this at the RH site as well. -- Karsten M. Self ([email protected]) What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Scope out Scoop: http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/ Nothin' rusty about Kuro5hin: http://www.kuro5hin.org/
