8.0 rc.d scripts less verbose?

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Tue Sep 22 18:51:55 UTC 2009


John Baldwin wrote:
> On Thursday 17 September 2009 6:42:29 am Doug Barton wrote:
>>> Also, I agree with Oliver; YES should probably be the default
>>> (POLA) so folks annoyed by 'too much information' in console.log
>>> can disable it.
>> This late in the release cycle I'm comfortable adding a knob, but I'm
>> not comfortable toggling the default. If there is consensus on the
>> freebsd-rc list to make the default "yes" then I will go with that
>> consensus.
> 
> I actually vote for getting this into 8.0 and turning the messages back on to 
> undo the current POLA violation in 8.0.  The biggest thing I think is just 
> restoring the functionality as the messages are handy when debugging a 
> startup issue.

I made the change in HEAD 5 days ago with the default to off, I can
easily switch that to on if that is the consensus. I also sent a
message to re@ around the same time but haven't heard back from them.


Doug

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