LSB-powered fancy init scripts

Posted by Nico Golde in
Monday, April 16. 2007

The LSB functions in Debian can do fancy and non-fancy output. However, the output is not really fance compared to grml, gentoo and Ubuntu. They have these nice, colored ok or fail messages in brackets

If you are like me and you always want to have the coolest bling bling

Try this patch:

--- init-functions 2007-01-21 04:54:18.000000000 +0100
+++ /lib/lsb/init-functions 2007-04-15 21:24:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -247,12 +247,18 @@ log_end_msg () {
# Only do the fancy stuff if we have an appropriate terminal
# and if /usr is already mounted
if log_use_fancy_output; then
- RED=`$TPUT setaf 1`
- NORMAL=`$TPUT op`
+ COLS=$($TPUT cols)
+ COL=$(($COLS-8))
+ UP=$($TPUT cuu1)
+ END=$($TPUT hpa $COL)
+ START=$($TPUT hpa 0)
+ RED=$($TPUT setaf 1)
+ NORMAL=$($TPUT op)
+ GREEN=$($TPUT setaf 2)
if [ $1 -eq 0 ]; then
- echo "."
+ echo "$UP$END[ ${GREEN}ok${NORMAL} ]"
else
- /bin/echo -e " ${RED}failed!${NORMAL}"
+ /bin/echo -e "$UP$START $RED*$NORMAL$END[ ${RED}fail${NORMAL} ]"
fi
else
if [ $1 -eq 0 ]; then

Of course this only works for init scripts including and using the lsb functions (should be most of them).

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Isn't this also a good way to identify init scripts that don't use the LSB functions?

#1 ak (Homepage) on 2007-04-16 13:50 (Reply)

I guess not since you have to install every package with an init script and configure it

But I also guess that most of the packages which lack proper LSB support have a bug filed in the BTS.

#2 nion on 2007-04-16 14:01 (Reply)

Nice work! I guess there's already a bug in the BTS for this?

#3 tklauser (Homepage) on 2007-04-16 19:07 (Reply)

There is http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=416485 which looks a bit different. I send my patch to it too...

#4 nion on 2007-04-16 21:18 (Reply)

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=416485

#5 Alessio (Homepage) on 2007-04-17 13:32 (Reply)

Alessio? Saw my previous comment?

#5.1 nion on 2007-04-17 15:38 (Reply)

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