On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 01:10:50PM -0700, David Bristel wrote: > I agree, the idea of cute little graphics showing up next to the start/stop > of a package makes me ill just thinking about it. Even the Redhat 6.0 way I would like it - it would attract users to Debian which is good ;-) > with it's green "OK" or red "Failed" made me ill because it supressed the > errors when something failed. Sure, it LOOKS nice for the enduser, but the > boot sequence is where you NEED to see what's going on if you need to > troubleshoot a problem on boot. Don't you think the error messages would just confuse the end user? Anyway - I don't know how it is done in RH6, but DLD uses the same colorization for the boot scripts. The output is in german, and error and warning messages are stored in /var/log/boot. That stuff was pretty amazing for me - you could see if something goes wrong with only a glance. And, BTW: After going through all the init scripts it printed a summary of failed services. This is a great improvement over the Debian boot concept. cu Torsten
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