On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:33 AM, jhell <[email protected]> wrote: > Youve been running this in production... How often do these servers > reboot ;¿ and is it to identify what is actually running on the machine > so they are not confused with surrounding equipment ? > > Most admins that I know don't bother with things like splash screens on > 'production' equipment because its irrelevant to the actual server > usage and unneeded overhead since the actual boot messages prove much > more useful than some random ascii or bmp/pcx.
They're embedded-style server systems at remote client sites, about 1200 of them. The splash module is just a visual "nicety" which is displayed during startup - at least providing some feedback as to what the system is doing. These are systems aimed at a non-tech audience, so those "niceties" count. The alternative to that was either standard kernel messages during boot, or a silent boot, both of which tend to confuse the crap out of non-tech end users. -- Antony _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
