On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:13:22PM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: > Brooks Davis wrote: > >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. > > True, however I still see a difference between FAILED and WARNING. For > instance, as an example: a FAILED RAID is different than a RAID with a > WARNING.
For that level of detail, the ability to provide additional output seems like the appropriate solution. -- 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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