Re: [logcheck] I hear you...
On 26 Nov 2001, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> Perhaps what would need to be done for that is that the entire screen
> would need to be under the control of a process that can move the
> cursor at will, etc. It would capture all subprocess and kernel
> printk output, and display it in some interesting and orderly way.
> Rather than the jumble we get when more than one thing tries to print
> to the console at the same time, we'll then have an orderly and
> readable display.
I prefer to see error/success messages in the order they occur. If you
parallelize execution (e.g. fsck) you cannot serialize output.
> The LSB mentions that they indend for the startup scripts to be
> parallelizable. A simple implementation might use "make" as a
> driver... but anyone who has built, say, the Linux kernel, with "-j
> 32", knows that the several instances of the compiler print whenever
> they feel like it, and all output is mixed together.
Jens
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