On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:47:23PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mon, 15.07.13 10:32, Vivek Goyal (vgo...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > CCing Lennart. > > > > This is important functionality for us. makeudmpfile utility (utility which > > filters kernel crash dump and shows the progress bar), run in kdump > > kernel. For large machines it displays the progress bar in kernel. Right > > now all the code runs from initramfs in the context of a service and > > we don't get progress messages. Just we get a 100% message at the end. > > > > Right now we bypassed journal by sending everything to /dev/console but > > it is a generic question that any serivce displaying some kind of > > progress bar, how is it handled with current journal mechanism. > > if you want to do fancier output then do facnier ouput directly on the > console, but do not pumpt this through a log system, that's really not > what it is for...
That's fine. But that means services have to change now. In the past stdout/stderr was not logged by default. So fancy outputs could go to stdout/stderr without any issues. Now stdout/stderr is being logged. Well, for my use case change is easy and we have already done it. So we will stick to it. Thanks Vivek _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
