Chad Nicolas Tindel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > What "colorful" things do you see in a RedHat shutdown? All I ever
> > see, even when shutting down from X is line after line telling what
> > is happening in plain text on a console. X goes down almost
> > immediately.
> >
> > Not saying it is particularly fast but I don't see "colorful things".
>
> Killing the X server and halting the system are two different things.
> Redhat6.0 added some eye candy to the RC scripts, so you get a green [OK],
> or a red [FAILED] (or something like that) as an indicator. Displaying
> color certainly doesn't take any longer that displaying in black and
> white, so that doesn't have anything to do with it... It just takes a long
> time to let the daemons and such exit gracefully.
What I said was during a "shutdown" (i.e. system halt) from X, the X
part goes down right away. Nothing indicating X going down and full
shut down being the same. Haven't tried 6.0 yet so was ignorant of
the color additions you mention. Can't see much advantage in it from
you discription though.
