[PLUG] mandrake

Jeme A Brelin jeme at brelin.net
Fri Aug 29 04:10:02 UTC 2003


On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Jeff Schwaber wrote:
> I know there are at least a couple of you out there using Mandrake. I
> remember its startup as being very pretty and being very easy to see
> when something fails because of the little green [OK] and red [FAILED]
> messages. And I'm trying to do that myself on my debian distribution,
> because while Debian is great, it's not always pretty.

I remember those from HPUX when I had that awful HP9000 under my desk.

It's a pretty common thing.  The script that does it is in the LFS book.

I think it's /etc/init.d/functions.

J.
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