Package: util-linux Version: 2.12r-4 Severity: minor Tags: patch With dozens of daemons starting, only hwclock spits lines that wrap on a standard 80 column display. And then a lone dot on the next line. One such message during boot, and one during shutdown. Looks like this:
A log will be saved in /var/log/fsck/checkroot if that location is writable. Setting the system clock:System Clock set. Local time: Wed Jan 18 20:09:18 UTC 2006. . Cleaning up ifupdown...done. And similar >80 line during shutdown. What I suggest is to remove leading strings "Setting|Saving... clock" because that information is obvious from the messages that follow. That would beautify the output. The patches for that are below, but are made against the two init scripts that are shipped, maybe you will need to modify them slightly to apply them against the source package. With that changes applied output looks like: A log will be saved in /var/log/fsck/checkroot if that System Clock set. Local time: Wed Jan 18 15:56:13 UTC Cleaning up ifupdown...done. --- hwclock.sh-virgin 2006-01-18 16:49:52.000000000 +0100 +++ /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh 2006-01-18 16:51:40.000000000 +0100 @@ -18,8 +18,6 @@ FIRST=no # debian/rules sets this to 'yes' when creating hwclockfirst.sh -[ "X$FIRST" = "Xyes" ] && AGAIN="" || AGAIN=" again" - # Set this to any options you might need to give to hwclock, such # as machine hardware clock type for Alphas. HWCLOCKPARS= @@ -87,8 +85,6 @@ fi if [ "$HWCLOCKACCESS" != no ]; then - log_daemon_msg "Setting the system clock$AGAIN" - # Copies Hardware Clock time to System Clock using the correct # timezone for hardware clocks in local time, and sets kernel # timezone. DO NOT REMOVE. @@ -116,7 +112,6 @@ else verbose_log_action_msg "Not setting System Clock" fi - log_end_msg 0 ;; stop|restart|reload|force-reload) if [ "X$FIRST" = "Xyes" ]; then @@ -130,7 +125,6 @@ # clock will not be carried across reboots. # if [ "$HWCLOCKACCESS" != no ]; then - log_daemon_msg "Saving the system clock" if [ "$GMT" = "-u" ]; then GMT="--utc" fi @@ -139,7 +133,6 @@ else verbose_log_action_msg "Not saving System Clock" fi - log_end_msg 0 ;; show) if [ "$HWCLOCKACCESS" != no ]; then --- hwclockfirst.sh-virgin 2006-01-18 16:49:52.000000000 +0100 +++ /etc/init.d/hwclockfirst.sh 2006-01-18 16:52:31.000000000 +0100 @@ -18,8 +18,6 @@ FIRST=yes # debian/rules sets this to 'yes' when creating hwclockfirst.sh -[ "X$FIRST" = "Xyes" ] && AGAIN="" || AGAIN=" again" - # Set this to any options you might need to give to hwclock, such # as machine hardware clock type for Alphas. HWCLOCKPARS= @@ -87,8 +85,6 @@ fi if [ "$HWCLOCKACCESS" != no ]; then - log_daemon_msg "Setting the system clock$AGAIN" - # Copies Hardware Clock time to System Clock using the correct # timezone for hardware clocks in local time, and sets kernel # timezone. DO NOT REMOVE. @@ -116,7 +112,6 @@ else verbose_log_action_msg "Not setting System Clock" fi - log_end_msg 0 ;; stop|restart|reload|force-reload) if [ "X$FIRST" = "Xyes" ]; then @@ -130,7 +125,6 @@ # clock will not be carried across reboots. # if [ "$HWCLOCKACCESS" != no ]; then - log_daemon_msg "Saving the system clock" if [ "$GMT" = "-u" ]; then GMT="--utc" fi @@ -139,7 +133,6 @@ else verbose_log_action_msg "Not saving System Clock" fi - log_end_msg 0 ;; show) if [ "$HWCLOCKACCESS" != no ]; then -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=hr_HR (charmap=ISO-8859-2) Versions of packages util-linux depends on: ii libc6 2.3.5-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libslang2 2.0.5-1 The S-Lang programming library - r ii libuuid1 1.38+1.39-WIP-2005.12.31-1 universally unique id library ii lsb-base 3.0-14 Linux Standard Base 3.0 init scrip ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-9 compression library - runtime util-linux recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]