About your first point:  I believe it does, or at least it does
contains a non-coloured version of the text.

About your second point:  I don't know, however, there are many common
utilities that output when successful and can be silensed with -q, I
dont know if initng supports this.

About your third point, I agree, although I had not noticed this myself.

On 7/21/06, Eric MSP Veith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> I share your opinion.
>
> I have some other thoughts about InitNG's output:
>
> 1. Does InitNG somehow detect that it emits its output to a serial line? The
> colourful output could be a problem then, but I never tested booting with
> InitNG from a serial line.
>
> 2. I somewhere read that InitNG tries to be POSIX compatible (at least with
> its shell scripts). The common habit of POSIX commands is to not give any
> output in case of a success (I'm talking about ngc, ng-update and such).
> Wouldn't it be better if the tools would all have a -v (verbose) option for
> the current output?
>
> 3. About english grammar: I am not a native speaker, but I find ngc's
> output "daemon/gpm have started!" strange. Shouldn't it read "daemon/gpm has
> been started successfully" or something like that?
>
> Have a nice day,
>         EMSPV
>
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> Date: Tuesday 18 July 2006 17:11
> Subject: [Initng] Messages at startup too long (PATCH)
>
> >Hi all,
> >IMHO, the messages at startup are too long, best to keep it short and sweet.
> >Patch included below if anyone is interested.
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