[PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC

[Eric Anderson]

Gordon Bergling wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> * Thus spake Eric Anderson (anderson at centtech.com):
>> I've made a patch to /etc/rc.subr that makes the startup/shutdown rc 
>> scripting look similar to other OS's (many different linux distros, 
>> HP-UX, etc), but without color.
>>
>> The patch shouldn't break anything, and is only enabled if you have this 
>> in your /etc/rc.conf:
>>
>> rc_fancy="YES"
>>
>> Several of the /etc/rc.d/* scripts send output to stdout, so that could 
>> be cleaned up a bit if needed, but for now I tried to keep the patch as 
>> minimal as possible.
>>
>> This is still a first pass, so please give feedback.
> 
> A short try on my notebook shows some errors.
> I don't want to let this email getting too big, so I put the "dmesg -a"
> output online. http://generic.0xfce3.net/dmesg-fancy.txt
> 
> BTW, the patch applied cleanly.


Thanks for the feedback!  Looks like I made an erroneous assumption that 
the wc, expr, and printf tools found in /usr/bin and /bin would be 
available through boot, but that isn't the case on systems with those 
file systems separate from /.  I'm not sure how to resolve some of these 
issues, since I don't know of a way to do those functions in csh without 
them.  I'm open to suggestions here from anyone.

Eric




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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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