Just a few notes. 1. What exactly do you wish to log? Only the messages like "The script started" and "The script stopped" or everything a script usually prints on the screen?
Your implementation seems to only log the former messages. For this purpose a special function is usually used in other distros (let's call it further lecho, the LFS echo :) ) that writes its argument to both the screen and a file (for example, /var/log/bootlog). Using this way doesn't allow to log the output messages of the commands run in bootscripts (like mount and fsck). 2. May be it would be better if /etc/rc.d/rc (I mean the main rc script. I don't remember how it's called in LFS) will run each bootscript using script_name 2>&1 |tee -a /var/log/bootlog rather then simply script_name Then, if we will also use lecho for echo'ing messages with timestamps then /var/log/bootlog will contain both bootscript messages with timestamps automatically added and output of other utilities like mount and fsck. I think such a detailed log would be much more helpful in different situations then just the messages the bootscripts write themselves using echo (or even lecho). Though, I don't know if this will work as expected if using C-s/C-q during system boot to stop/continue service starting (using these is very useful for viewing messages "on-line" if something goes wrong upon boot). In general, I don't know what if a user need to interact with a system (for example, operate with fsck in case of a filesystem crash) when bootscripts use tee. 3. It would be also fine if each bootscript will be able to log its output even when being run directly (for example "/etc/rc.d/init.d/apache2 restart" from the console), not upon system boot. With your implementation that means we must not remove /dev/bootlog and kill /bin/bootlog.sh (writing to /var/log/bootlog) after system has been booted. -- Nothing but perfection Vladimir A. Pavlov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
