Re: sanity check in init.d
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 06:39:55PM -0500, Shaleh wrote:
> Ever experimented w/ a "real" daemon before? httpd, sendmail, etc. start and
> exit, w/o giving any notice. You must look in their logs. This is "expected"
> daemon behavior because a daemon does not keep its attachment to a console to
> echo any warnings.
Sometimes this is what happens but not what you want. If the daemon just
dies on startup I'd like a warning that it couldn't start. Some daemons
do this and it's quite frustrating.
> Many people complain about how noisy Linux is at boot time. Adding messages
> that are easily missed unless you are specifically watching the boot process
> seems over zealous and wasteful. dmesg does not keep them, nor do any logs.
Tell them to quit whining. =>
The fact that most of the post-kernel stuff isn't logged bugs me a little
actually.
> If you personally want to implement this I would recommend a VERBOSE setting
> somewhere. If it is on, you get more noise, off is status quo.
This is a good idea, we should do this if possible.
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