On Thu, 03 May 2007 18:13:25 -0700 Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote: > Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.iki.fi> writes: > > On to, 2007-05-03 at 13:39 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> My ideal output format would just list "subsystem OK" > > > While we're daydreaming, I'd like an empty screen with a timer counting > > down how long (in seconds) I have until I can actually use the machine. > > Unless there's a problem, of course, in which case I want all the info I > > need to debug things. > > One of the great parts of using a library to handle the output formatting > is that people who want this sort of boot presentation (or anything else, > really) can then develop themes that do exactly what they want. > Splashy is indeed already using that functionality. It installs a file /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh, which is their to override functions from the LSB library. It increments a progress bar triggered by calls to log_end_msg made from init-scripts. That way we don't need change the initscripts or install extra scripts, we get out info from all scripts that use the LSB library. grts Tim
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