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WHY THIS MAILS COME TO ME? EVERY DAY COME TO ME 200 MAILS FROM YOUR MAILING LISTS. CAN YOU DO SOMETHING WITH IT? THANK YOU. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicos Gollan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tom Barnes-Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "David Z Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 11:07 AM Subject: Re: color boot text > On Sunday 02 June 2002 04:44, Tom Barnes-Lawrence wrote: > > > Could it be possible to create a program, lets call it "colourify" > > for example (I don't know of one), such that when the init scripts > > run a program, they direct the program's standard error (or standard > > output if appropriate) stream into "colourify", and colourify then > > uses the exit status of the program to determine whether it > > succeeded or failed. Having determined that, colourify then dumps the > > text that was fed to it in the appropriate colour- IIRC, the Linux > > console type uses the same escape codes as xterms and other things, > > which are in the Xterm postscript documentation. > > OK, I'm not sure that you could have a program receive another > > processes output *and* detect its exit status in one go, but > > y'know... I'm sure something like this is possible without too much > > effort (though you'd prolly not want to for fsck's progress bar > > things). > > _Theoretically_ (I'm not all sure about it), the init scripts return 0 > on success and something else on failure. So you could in theory wrap > the calls init makes into another script that simply executes the > script, removes the final newline from its output and then appends the > colored stuff. > > Since debian init scripts have a fairly standard output, you could do > even further parsing of the string and perhaps do neat stuff like > pritnitng the program name in bold. > > Just my 2cent. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]