I like my rc.d boot messages :(

[Daniel Eischen]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Daniel Eischen <deischen at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, John Baldwin wrote:
>>
>> than 'start'.  Am I the only one who finds it useful to know which daemon
>>> is
>>> making my startup hang for an extra second?
>>>
>>
>> No, you are not.  I too would like that.
>>
>
> I'd go further: it was nice when startup scripts printed their name (no
> newline) and then '.\n' when they were finished.  It then becomes
> unambiguous who is at fault.  It's hard to tell with the current non-system
> which of the 2 scrpts (the one that has printed it's name, or the one that
> next prints it's name) is at fault.  Worse.. it could be the quiet script in
> between.

Agreed, but you could delineate it with something other than '\n" too.
Like '[amd] [smtp] [dhcpd] ...', with the ']' meaning the script is
done and has moved on to the next service.

-- 
DE