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Re: [logcheck] I hear you...



>>>>> "Brian" == Brian McGroarty <brian@robotattack.com> writes:

    Brian> On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 03:47:51PM -0800, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
    >> 
    >> Perhaps we should assimilate "chkconfig" then?  Embrace and extend
    >> it?

    Brian> If the goal is just to make error messages more visible, what about
    Brian> just having an environment variable suggesting a level of verbosity
    Brian> which people can beg the init.d authors to respect?

    Brian> SILENT, ERR, ERR_WARN, ERR_WARN_INFO, VERBOSE, USR_SHARE_DICT_WORDS,
    Brian> FREEBSD, STRINGS_DEV_RANDOM, JOHN_KATZ

 What do you think of the hints toward a solution given by the LSB
 (www.linuxbase.org)?

 They specify output functions other than "echo".  Those can be
 implemented any way you like, and thus can provide colors and
 formatting, or display in separate subwindows, etc.

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