On Mon, 27.01.14 13:42, Tom Gundersen (t...@jklm.no) wrote: > > 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?
Yeah, maybe. Figuring out good timeouts its probably something one should do when actually playing around with it and checking how things "feel" if this is implemented... > > 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? Hmm, possibly, yeah, but we probably should explain that too... i.e. "Turning off boot-time status output again, since timeout is resolved" or so... But maybe this ultimately gets too confusing... Note that this all is just an issue on non-Plymouth systems. If you use Plymouth then things are much nicer anyway, since the output is always generated, just not visible on screen until the user hits Esc. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel