init became noisy

David Daney ddaney at avtrex.com
Fri May 18 10:08:58 PDT 2007


Ignacio García Pérez wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently moved to 1.5.0 and noticed that init is noisy when 
> FEATURE_INIT_SYSLOG is not enabled.
> 
> Now it shows "Starting whatever", and other messages like when one 
> controlled process dies and is restarted.
> 
> My question is: is this right?, shouldn't init be noisy in the console 
> only for errors and special situations like shutdown?
> 

FWIW, I agree.  I am going to patch my local version of 1.5.0 to get rid 
of this cruft.

Perhaps those things should only be printed if some sort of debugging 
mode is enabled.

David Daney


> I mean, it is ok if init prints some stuff whenever it detects a nasty 
> error, but those "info" messages shouldn't be shown in the console (and 
> weren't in 1.4.2).
> 
> 
> 
> Nacho.
> 
> 
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