Bug#419376: saslauthd: no output from init script in default etch install

[Fabian Fagerholm]

On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 20:34 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> /etc/default/rcS contains:
> # Set VERBOSE to "no" if you would like a more quiet bootup.
> VERBOSE=yes
> 
> Out of curiousity, what is the setting of that variable in your own
> /etc/default/rcS?

Interestingly, it's "no". Note that this is a default etch install,
which means that users would have to take manual action after a default
install to get any init-script output whatsoever, if all scripts would
implement VERBOSE.

But /lib/init/vars.sh also comes into play, which might change the
variable.

> I think the answer is yes, we need the variable.  The question is more
> about what is considered "verbose".  Are the short one liners, like
> "starting foo", "restarting bar" and "stopping baz" verbose?  Should
> those be considered the "quite" versions, with longer and more detailed
> messages being output if VERBOSE is set?

It seems that policy doesn't define this behaviour. Personally, I think
the one-liners are not verbose, but I also think that VERBOSE works in
the wrong layer, it should be integrated with the lsb_* output functions
and be transparent to the init-script writer.

Also see this thread:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/04/msg00491.html

-- 
Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe at paniq.net>
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