Quoting Jonas Steverud ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > "Krosigk, Lorenz Von" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > is there a way to hide the bootup messages at the screen, to direct them > > (the important ones like warnings and errors) to a file and to show > > something else on the screen meanwhile the machine starts up? > > You have to modify each script in /etc/init.d/. > > The scripts found in /etc/rcS is ran at boot and then /etc/rc2.d (or > whatever the names, my system is broken currently [see other thread] > so I can't check). It is not one script that runs them all so you > can't add '> /foo/bar' to it. Sadly enough. (I think it is both > security and historical reasons for this.)
But surely /etc/init.s/rcS _is_ one script, so you should be able to redirect stdout in there, and leave the rest of /etc/init.d/* untouched. ( for i in /etc/rcS.d/S??* do ... done ) > /foo/bar Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
