Re: How to read the result of inittab

[Martin Fluch <fluch@rock.helsinki.fi>]

On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Mickael Vera wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm still looking for reading the results of inittab.
> Redirection of the output to a file is not a solution 
> as the root partition is mounted read-only when it 
> executes.
> 
> My problem is that there are not enough lines on the console,
> is it possible to scroll back on the console, or to
> make the boot processus make a pause ? 

Add a sleep comand to the /etc/init.d/rc script, somthing like this:

startup() {
  case "$1" in
        *.sh)
                $debug sh "$@"
                ;;
        *)
                $debug "$@"
                ;;
  esac

  sleep 1
}

 
> Some errors appear at boot time but it is not a solution
> to boot until I can read all the message :-)
> 
> What is the solution ?

Martin

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