Re: A Standard for Console Messages
On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, Johnie Ingram wrote:
> "Christian" == Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de> writes:
>
> Christian> in the script. If you have more than one daemon to
> Christian> start, you should do the following:
> Christian>
> Christian> echo -n "Starting remote filesystem services: "
> Christian> echo -n "nfsd "; start-stop-daemon --start nfsd
> Christian> echo -n "mountd "; start-stop-daemon --start mountd
> Christian> echo -n "ugidd"; start-stop-daemon --start ugidd
> Christian> echo "."
> Christian>
> Christian> This makes it possible for the user to see what takes so
> Christian> long and when the final daemon has been started.
>
> I like the standard so far.
>
> This part does not quite work, though, if any of the daemons are
> started conditionally, or if users are expected to comment out
> unnecessary lines. For example, there would be an extra space before
> the period if "ugidd" were not started.
>
> I suggest always putting the space at the beginning of the daemon name, like
> this:
>
> echo -n "Starting remote filesystem services:"
> echo -n " nfsd"; start-stop-daemon --start nfsd
> echo -n " mountd"; start-stop-daemon --start mountd
> # echo -n " ugidd"; start-stop-daemon --start ugidd
> echo "."
>
> Though this means that if no daemon is started, the period would come
> immediately after the colon. I'm not crazy about this aesthetically,
> but the only alternatives I see are putting two spaces before the
> first daemon name, or one space before the period, or using variables
> and lengthy tests to avoid printing anything if none of the daemons
> are to be started.
Ok, this is a good point. If all daemons are commented out the sys admin
could also comment out the first line and the last one (containing the
dot) and so this isn't really a problem.
I change the standard as you suggested.
Thanks,
Chris
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