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Re: I hear you...



* Brian McGroarty <brian@robotattack.com> [011129 12:52]:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 10:41:38AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> > i'd like to see the entire init messages dumped to a logfile. w/o ansi
> > sequences.

Perhaps a script(1) from /etc/inittab or something?  Could be tricky to
implement.

> For this to be most effective, perhaps colorful ANSI and a pause of
> several seconds could be included before starting the display manager
> when an error has occurred...
> 
> (bright red and a long beep)...
> ## One or more init scripts returned an error.
> ## View /var/log/init-failures for more information.
> ## Hit enter or wait 5 seconds to continue...

The first virtual console is there regardless of any xdm for a summary
message.

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-- Grant Bowman                                   <grantbow@svpal.org>



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