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Correction about my third point: It says "Service daemon/foo is started!", 
which is correct, of course. "Has been started" sounds better to me 
anyways. :-)

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Sender: "ico2 ico2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Recipient: [email protected]
Date: Friday 21 July 2006 15:10
Subject: Re: [Initng] Messages at startup too long (PATCH)

>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
>>
>> - ------ Original Message ------
>> Sender: "ico2 ico2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Recipient: [email protected]
>> 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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