On 7/26/23 9:45 AM, David King wrote:
On 7/25/23 21:43, home user wrote:
> I tried to research plymouth. I found little information about it; no hint of any
configuration or customization file. I tried searching for files (not in user directory
trees) containing the string "plymouth"; I was overwhelmed. I tried finding
files and directories (not in user directory trees) whose name contained
"plymouth"; I was overwhelmed. I gather plymouth is used for much more than
logging during boot-up and shutdown.
Strange. When I searched on "plymouth linux" the first two hits I got were the
Arch Linux and
Freedesktop.org pages on Plymouth which seem to answer the questions you
are asking. The Arch Linux page describes where to find the configuration files, what
options can be put into them, and how to toggle Plymouth on and off using kernel options.
Plymouth is part of
Freedesktop.org and their page lists a mailing list, IRC channel and
documentation links. I'd expect you could use those to get any information you
needed.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/plymouth
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Plymouth/
Before opening this thread, I tried searching a few things like "Fedora shutdown
console logging". I got Fedora documentation pages that were warned to be
out-of-date. I looked through them anyway. I saw no hint on how to control console
logging, though I could easily have missed something.
After Barry mentioned plymouth, I looked at its man page. Likewise plymouthd. Again, I
saw no hint of how to control console logging, and no hint of configuration files, though
I could easily have missed something. I did see the Freedesktop reference, and spent time
in that. Same result, though I did not look at everything.
You, presumably a sys.admin., would know if and how information in other Linux
distribution web sites apply to Fedora. I'm not a sys.admin.. I don't expect
something in another Linux distribution web site to easily apply, if at all, to Fedora.
As this had already taken up large amounts of my time, I did not consider that web site,
nor would I consider suse, ubantu, windows, or any other OS's web site.
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things, Right now, I am so far
behind, I will never die!
😄
(*)
I'm not yet done responding to everyone's posts, but the problem is solved.
I'll try to get that posted soon.
(*) from a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip.