Re: Cobalt RaQ2 boot/shutdown sequence on LCD

[Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.debian-mips@telemetry.co.uk>]

viz@cgocable.ca wrote:
> On 2015-03-02 5:11 PM, Matt Turner wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 5:52 PM, viz@cgocable.ca <viz@cgocable.ca> wrote:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > I used to have a patch or script to display startup and shutdown 
> > > scripts on
> > > boot and shutdown years ago.
> > >
> > > I can't seem to find it online anymore and I have just refreshed my 2
> > > RaQ2's. I'd like to have that information again if someone could help me
> > > find the patch/script to achieve this.
> > >
> > > It would say "Starting up ..." on the first line, and the second line 
> > > would
> > > show "apache.sh" and change for every script.
> > I don't know if this is the same thing, but Gentoo has a
> > sys-apps/cobalt-panel-utils package. The homepage is dead since 2008,
> > but the tarball is still available on the mirrors:
> >
> > http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/cobalt-panel-utils-1.2.tar.gz
> Dead link unfortunately. All I could find was a .ebuild which didn't 
> help me much.
>
> I guess if I could understand how init.d scripts are called, I could 
> sneak a putlcd command in the loop to change the display. If that is 
> even possible?

Google suggests 
http://www.mmnt.net/db/0/412/ftp.ula.ve/gentoo/distfiles/ which appears 
to have the files, although obviously they might potentially have been 
tampered with. At the very least that should allow you to see how things 
hang together.

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