[PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC

[Coleman Kane]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:45:09AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
> Eric Anderson wrote:
>
> Actually, some other things got changed somewhere in the history, that 
> broke some things and assumptions I was making.  This patch has them 
> fixed, and I've tested it with all the different options:
> 
> http://www.googlebit.com/freebsd/patches/rc_fancy.patch-9
> 
> It's missing the defaults/rc.conf diffs, but you should already know those.
> 
> 
> Eric
> 

I have a new patch (to 7-CURRENT) of the "fancy_rc" updates.

This allows the use of:
rc_fancy="YES"        --->  Turns on fancy reporting (w/o color)
rc_fancy_color="YES"  --->  Turns on fancy reporting (w/ color), needs
                            rc_fancy="YES"
rc_fancy_colour="YES" --->  Same as above for you on the other side of
                            the pond.
rc_fancy_verbose="YES" -->  Turn on more verbose activity messages.
                            This will cause what appear to be "false
			    positives", where an unused service is
			    "OK" instead of "SKIP".

You can also customize the colors, the widths of the message
brackets (e.g. [   OK   ] vs. [ OK ]), the screen width, and
the contents of the message (OK versus GOOD versus BUENO).

Also, we have the following message combinations:
OK   --->  Universal good message
SKIP,SKIPPED ---> Two methods for conveying the same idea?
ERROR,FAILED ---> Ditto above, for failure cases

Should we just have 3 different messages, rather than 5 messages
in 3 categories?

TODO: One thing I am trying to figure out is how to get the
      terminal to report its width, in columns (which is something
      that VT100+ supports). I just don't know how to do it from a
      script.

TODO: Get better reporting from the rc.d/* scripts (and whatever
      other services we track). Right now, if verbose is on, many
      services respond with OK when they aren't initialized, and
      some respond with SKIP/SKIPPED/FAILED. E.g.: pcvt will show
      "SKIP", but geli2 will show "OK". Neither of these two are
      enabled for me though.

You may get it from here:
http://www.cokane.org/files/rc_fancy-cokane5.patch


Further:

I am very open to suggestions regarding the rc.d/* system and its
reporting mechanisms. I am even thinking that it might be a good 
idea to offer an overhauled set of scripts that forces functionality
into the following framework:
rc job offers result code (from which the OK,SKIP,ERROR, etc... are
picked)
rc job offers short (< 20 char) status message. This could be printed
in a nice fashion just after the "Running start XXX", "Running stop
YYY", which we currently display.
rc job (or rc itself) offers name of job (geli2, moused, etc...).

Thus, the lines are nice, consistent, and fluid. The "short status
message" above would most likely be truncated to 20 chars (or so.).

Hopefully, some of this can then start to be put into an rc-reporter
such that I could run a command that could give me a nice report of
rc/init:
moused      FAILED                            "short message"

Gentoo has a nice script named rc-status that does similar. Though
I am not too fond of its output format (job name at left, status at 
right edge, hard to find out what failed in a multiline report).

Try this latest version, and drop a line back with your thoughts,
criticisms, etc....

--
Coleman Kane
cokane at cokane.org