On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 10:23:32PM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: > Coleman Kane wrote: > >On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:45:09AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: > >>Eric Anderson wrote: > >> > >>Actually, some other things got changed somewhere in the history, that > >>broke some things and assumptions I was making. This patch has them > >>fixed, and I've tested it with all the different options: > >> > >>http://www.googlebit.com/freebsd/patches/rc_fancy.patch-9 > >> > >>It's missing the defaults/rc.conf diffs, but you should already know > >>those. > >> > >> > >>Eric > >> > > > >I have a new patch (to 7-CURRENT) of the "fancy_rc" updates. > > > >This allows the use of: > >rc_fancy="YES" ---> Turns on fancy reporting (w/o color) > >rc_fancy_color="YES" ---> Turns on fancy reporting (w/ color), needs > > rc_fancy="YES" > >rc_fancy_colour="YES" ---> Same as above for you on the other side of > > the pond. > >rc_fancy_verbose="YES" --> Turn on more verbose activity messages. > > This will cause what appear to be "false > > positives", where an unused service is > > "OK" instead of "SKIP". > > > >You can also customize the colors, the widths of the message > >brackets (e.g. [ OK ] vs. [ OK ]), the screen width, and > >the contents of the message (OK versus GOOD versus BUENO). > > > >Also, we have the following message combinations: > >OK ---> Universal good message > >SKIP,SKIPPED ---> Two methods for conveying the same idea? > >ERROR,FAILED ---> Ditto above, for failure cases > > > >Should we just have 3 different messages, rather than 5 messages > >in 3 categories? > > Yes, that's something that started with my first patch, and never got > ironed out. I think it should be: > OK > SKIPPED > FAILED > and possibly also: > ERROR > > The difference between FAILED and ERROR would be that FAILED means the > service did not start at all, and ERROR means it started but had some > kind of error response.
FAILED vs ERROR seems confusing. I'd be inclined toward WARNING vs FAILED or ERROR. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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