Re: color boot text
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicos Gollan" <gtdev@spearhead.de>
To: "Tom Barnes-Lawrence" <tomble@usermail.com>; "David Z Maze"
<dmaze@debian.org>
Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: color boot text
> On Sunday 02 June 2002 04:44, Tom Barnes-Lawrence wrote:
>
> > Could it be possible to create a program, lets call it "colourify"
> > for example (I don't know of one), such that when the init scripts
> > run a program, they direct the program's standard error (or standard
> > output if appropriate) stream into "colourify", and colourify then
> > uses the exit status of the program to determine whether it
> > succeeded or failed. Having determined that, colourify then dumps the
> > text that was fed to it in the appropriate colour- IIRC, the Linux
> > console type uses the same escape codes as xterms and other things,
> > which are in the Xterm postscript documentation.
> > OK, I'm not sure that you could have a program receive another
> > processes output *and* detect its exit status in one go, but
> > y'know... I'm sure something like this is possible without too much
> > effort (though you'd prolly not want to for fsck's progress bar
> > things).
>
> _Theoretically_ (I'm not all sure about it), the init scripts return 0
> on success and something else on failure. So you could in theory wrap
> the calls init makes into another script that simply executes the
> script, removes the final newline from its output and then appends the
> colored stuff.
>
> Since debian init scripts have a fairly standard output, you could do
> even further parsing of the string and perhaps do neat stuff like
> pritnitng the program name in bold.
>
> Just my 2cent.
>
>
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