init became noisy

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Friday 18 May 2007 19:08, David Daney wrote:
> 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.

I am interested in the patch.

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

I think it's L_LOG messages which shouldn't normally reach console,
only syslog (or /dev/tty5 if !ENABLE_FEATURE_INIT_SYSLOG)

BTW, I actually think that /dev/tty5 logging is a hack and
maybe should be removed.
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vda