[PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <44452532.40703 at centtech.com>
            Eric Anderson <anderson at centtech.com> writes:
: 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.

/bin and /sbin are available through the entire boot.  Only things in
/usr are suspect because /usr gets mounted early in the boot process,
but not as early as /.

Warner