Bug 218593

Summary:	sys-apps/openrc-0.2.2: undocumented migration of app-admin/showconsole-1.08
Product:	[OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org	Reporter:	Martin von Gagern <Martin.vGagern>
Component:	Other documents	Assignee:	nm (RETIRED) <nightmorph>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	docs-team, wschlich
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	213988

Description Martin von Gagern 2008-04-20 15:30:18 UTC

It is unclear how boot time console logging should be handled when used with OpenRC.

Previously there was a setting RC_BOOTLOG in /etc/conf.d/rc, together with a verbose comment about this. The migration guide tells you that this file is deprecated, and that all settings should me migrated to the corresponding settings in /etc/rc.conf.

So now one can consider these options:
1. leave RC_BOOTLOG in /etc/conf.d/rc, as there is no corresponding setting
2. move RC_BOOTLOG to /etc/rc.conf, so one can remove /etc/conf.d/rc
3. move and rename to rc_bootlog, as all other options are lower case now
4. set rc_logger and assume it still needs app-admin/showconsole
5. set rc_logger and unmerge app-admin/showconsole, assuming it's unnecessary

I haven't tried out these cases, but from looking at the code of showconsole, I'd assume either 2 or 5 would be the correct interpretation.

I would like to see a section in the migration guide, clarifying the situation.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2008-04-20 21:14:53 UTC

openrc handles all of the logging internally so there's no need for the /dev hacks that showconsole employed.  unmerge the package as it is no longer needed.

Comment 2 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-05-02 15:33:30 UTC

# rc_logger launches a logging daemon to log the entire rc process to
# /var/log/rc.log
rc_logger="NO"


A section on that could be added to the migration guide..

Comment 3 nm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-09-11 08:29:17 UTC

Thanks for the solutions; fixed in CVS.