On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Lennart Poettering <lenn...@poettering.net> wrote: > So, there has been this todo list item for a while to support a mode > where a failing service at boot would result in boot status output to be > turned on. Still not sure iof such a logic would be a good upstream > default, but certainly a good default for more technically-minded > distros such as Debian. > > So maybe something like this: In addition to the boolean values for > systemd.show_status= on the kernel cmdline (or ShowStatus= in > system.conf), we'd add a third value called "auto". If that is set > we'd boot up without any status output, until either at least one > service failed, or at least one job reaches its timeout half-way.
For people like me who has an attention span of about five seconds, half-way to the timeout is still a really long time to just sit there. Maybe just use the same timeout as the eye-of-cylon thingie? > When > that point is reached we'c continue the entire rest of the boot with > status output enabled. Hm, maybe only do this if something actually failed/reached the timeout, and not if we just show the eye-of-cylon for a while and then continue normally? > And we wouldn't just turn the logging on, we'd > also explain why we turned it on in one "introductory" message: "Turning > on boot-time status output because of service failure:", or "Turning > on boot-time status output because of nearing job timeout:" or something > like that. -t _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel