Thanks for all your responses, appreciate it. I was able to put up a script that does the job
On Thursday, April 26, 2012 11:02:51 PM UTC-7, Alvin Wong wrote: > > Hi, > > If you need to do some setup job (for example setting hardware, e.g. > cpu scaling) you can use a script, just look into `init.goldfish.rc` > and `/system/etc/init.goldfish.sh`. > > However I don't think you would like to show something in the console. > Android has a GUI, and normally you don't want to show information to > the user in this way. > If this is for debug purpose, you'd probably use `logwrapper` to wrap > your script or use output redirection (`command > file`) for commands > in your script, or just type into the serial console or adb shell, or > you can even use Terminal Emulator. > > You know, we don't usually expect and don't need the output of > services to show in the console. All services launched by `init` are > redirected to `/dev/null` so you cannot see them. > > Perhaps you can point out what exactly you want to do and some of us > would help you decide the best way to do that. > > Good luck, > Alvin Wong > > On Apr 27, 3:28 am, HV <[email protected]> wrote: > > I wanted the commands that I'm running from within the script get > > translated on to the console. But, I guess that's not possible > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thursday, April 26, 2012 12:18:35 PM UTC-7, Chris Stratton wrote: > > > > > On Wednesday, April 25, 2012 2:59:01 PM UTC-4, HV wrote: > > > > >> With this, I do see the service kicking in. The next challenge is how > do > > >> I get the script to work. Say if I want to cd /mnt/sdcard & this > should > > >> show up in the shell prompt. Is that doable? In other words, it > should work > > >> exactly as though I'm manually running the script > > > > > Are you saying you want to pre-run commands in the adb shell session? > Or > > > the shell of a terminal emulator on the device? -- unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
