On Wednesday, 27. April 2005 23:26, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 03:03:06PM -0400 I heard the voice of > > Mike Edenfield, and lo! it spake thus: > > One possible alternative to an all-out graphics display would be a > > 'prettified' text console. I'm thinking of what Gentoo and older RedHat > > systems did (haven't used RH in years, dunno if this still applies) > > where about 80% of the system log messages are hidden behind a simple > > task list: > > > > Mounting File Systems ... [ok] > > Starting xl0 ... [ok] > > This is something I've always found somewhat ironic, actually. I'm > not really sure overall whether I like it or not, but it IS very > structured and consistent. Yes, it consistently hides (or worse, discards) useful information - be it status messages, errors or otherwise. Most distros don't bother about the possible return codes of each service in detail either, so every condition that could occur is reduced to [ok] or [failed]. Even the NT eventlog isn't that dumb. -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi_at_freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org
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