Vladimir A. Pavlov wrote: > Just a few notes. Thanks for the input.
> 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 I thought about this, but it is possible that /var is not mounted early in the boot process, however using my script to buffer messages might work: script_name 2>&1 |tee /dev/bootlog > 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). I agree. I wanted to do something like the above from the beginning, but my first thought was about buffering the output. Integrating it into rc is a good way to generalize without making lots of changes. The only minor problem I see is that tee would need to be moved from /usr/bin to /bin. > 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. don't know either. It would require testing. However, we are not changing input at all, so C-s/C-q should stop the process. > 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. Actually I was thinking about removing /dev/bootlog as the last step of the boot.sh script. I don't see it needed after a login prompt. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
