| 1 | The enhanced rc script adds features previously found in earlier |
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| 2 | versions of the lfs-bootscripts. It also adds the ability to |
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| 3 | 'interactively' step through the init scripts at boot time. The |
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| 4 | /etc/sysconfig/rc file contains new variables that set the time for |
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| 5 | prompt, and allow you to change the name that is displayed in the prompt. |
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| 7 | Additionally, the script completes the bootloging setup |
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| 8 | (lfs-bootscripts 3.2.{1,2})by providing a temporary location to capture |
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| 9 | the log messages that are generated before your syslog daemon is started. |
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| 10 | tmpfs is mounted at /media/boottemp/ as soon as rc is called for the first |
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| 11 | time. It is unmounted as soon as we leave sysinit, and the temporary log |
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| 12 | file is appended to the existing boot.log file. To use this feature requires |
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| 13 | a couple of changes. By default, the bootlog uses the local2 facility. |
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| 14 | This is configurable in the /etc/sysconfig/rc file. Additionally, to meet |
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| 15 | FHS guidelines, the logger binary must be moved to /bin. This is hardcoded |
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| 16 | into the scripts, and a proper check is made, in fact returning logger to |
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| 17 | /usr/bin is the easiest way to disable bootlogging. |
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| 19 | The tmpfs is availible for any script durring the entire time of rc's |
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| 20 | execution and is unmounted when rc exits a numbered runlevel. Durring |
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| 21 | sysinit, the functions script has been modified to log to the temporary |
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| 22 | file, and once in a numbered runlevel, will return to the old behavior |
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| 23 | allowing your syslog daemon to capture and deliver the boot messages to |
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| 24 | the log file. The temporary filesystem can be used for other purposes |
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| 25 | as well but is currently used only for the interactive lock file and the |
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| 26 | initial bootlog cache. The scripts are current as of |
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| 27 | lfs-bootscripts-3.2.3-pre-1 and can be installed by running |
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| 28 | 'make install-enhanced' from the toplevel directory. |
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| 30 | Finally, the boot_mesg function contains very complicated line wrapping code, |
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| 31 | that was seldom used, and hence removed from the bootscripts. It has been |
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| 32 | made availible again here, however, it is known not to work with some |
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| 33 | locales. The syntax is the same as the current boot_mesg function. |
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