[PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC

[Eric Anderson]

Coleman Kane wrote:
> On 4/18/06, *M. Warner Losh* <imp at bsdimp.com <mailto:imp at bsdimp.com>> wrote:
> 
>     In message: <44452532.40703 at centtech.com
>     <mailto:44452532.40703 at centtech.com>>
>                 Eric Anderson <anderson at centtech.com
>     <mailto:anderson at centtech.com>> writes:
>     : Gordon Bergling wrote:
>     : > Hi,
>     : >
>     : > * Thus spake Eric Anderson (anderson at centtech.com
>     <mailto: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
> 
> 
> Nice work!
> 
> I too noticed the dependence upon wc, printf, expr. I went ahead and 
> rewrote these into equivalents in native sh. (attaching new diff).
> 
> This diff is against the latest 7-CURRENT rc.subr. I had to manually 
> merge 3 hunks due to some differences.

Thanks!!  I've put the updated version (for 6-STABLE) here:

http://www.googlebit.com/freebsd/patches/rc_fancy.patch-2


Gordon - can you give this version a try?

Thanks,
Eric




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