Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 14:38:47 -0700 From: Chris Tubutis <chris@tci.com> To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> Cc: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heavy on the Verbosity (was) Re: Annoying messages on startup.. Message-ID: <36A25867.5EF5E5CE@tci.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901171154310.60810-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> <36A24F91.478B5387@tdx.co.uk>
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Karl Pielorz wrote: > > Coming from someone who's spent the best part of last week trying to diagnose > various hardware & software problems on NT & Win'95 machines (to almost no > avail), I'd appreciate as much verbosity being left _in_ the kernel & FreeBSD > as possible... I'm fed up with seeing "Unknown error", or "Unknown errors > occured" or "Service Failed" and the like on competitor / other products... > Make them only 'if verbose' if you need to - just don't lose them > alltogether!... :) This is a very good point, something that I strongly agree with. As hard as I try not to, I find myself having to deal with products from Redmond while at work. Yeah, stuff like "Error connecting to database" tells me absolutely nothing and is frustrating as all Hell. Maybe a way to toggle the verbosity to suit individual preferences would be a good way to go? ct To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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