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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Einfo and Ebegin
From: Mark Watkins <jedimark () geekdom ! com ! au>
Date: 2005-03-27 13:41:31
Message-ID: 4246B80B.7060805 () geekdom ! com ! au
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I have a little 16x2 lcd panel sitting in the front of my little
gateway/mailserver. I wanted to display the basic boot/shutdown messages
on it, then run my uptime/link status on it after boot. After looking
around, I ended up adding a little bit to ebegin in functions.sh,
dumping messages matching certain patterns to the serial device, and run
my uptime/link script from /etc/conf.d/local.start
This works fine for what I want, but it did get me thinking.. Having a
short summary for this ebegin info would be rather handy. As far as I
have seen, the service startup/stop messages don't get logged (change vc
or start X and they are gone) and maybe a simple pluggable way for
setting off a generic or customized trigger when a service fails to
start/stop?
The messages sent to ebegin tend to be long and awkward when trying to
parse, and even worse damnit, these long message lines don't all fit on
my 16 character wide panel. ;-)
Making the startup script changes I need on my gentoo boxen has been
relatively straightforward for me, but still, it kind of feels like a
dirty hack to me. I'll admit, it's the unix way, but I'd love some kind
of clean way to add little extensions to do with startup stuff.
Thats my rant for the day.. :)
/ Mark Watkins
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