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gravitezero

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Registered: 2012-05-03

Posts: 11

[systemd] Get a nice sysVinit like boot process

Hi,

I just switch to systemd, and am very pleased to see how fast my system can boot.
However, I miss the nice display of the sysVinit ( with colors, status).

How could I bring back something similar with systemd ?

The purpose is only aesthetical, so I might rather disable any systemd output if it's easier.

Thanks.

ataraxia

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 1,553

Re: [systemd] Get a nice sysVinit like boot process

Try uncommenting the ShowStatus=yes line in /etc/systemd/system.conf .

swanson

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2011-02-05

Posts: 759

Re: [systemd] Get a nice sysVinit like boot process

Nice tip! I've been concerned that journal gets up to 60-70 MB on my desktop machine, of course it's binary, but it seems not to be useful for an everyday desktop. More use to some server. And my logview tools are adopted for usual log files in /var/log. So I edited my system.conf to look like this;

[Manager]
#LogLevel=info
LogTarget=syslog
LogColor=yes
LogLocation=no
#DumpCore=yes
#CrashShell=no
ShowStatus=yes
SysVConsole=yes
#CrashChVT=1
#CPUAffinity=1 2
#MountAuto=yes
#SwapAuto=yes
#DefaultControllers=cpu
DefaultStandardOutput=syslog 
DefaultStandardError=inherit

It's all new to me so I'd appreciate any comments.