[Fedora-livecd-list] Can't echo to console from dracut module

[John.Florian at dart.biz]

> From: "Brian C. Lane" <bcl at redhat.com>
> 
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 02:55:40PM -0500, John.Florian at dart.biz wrote:
> > I have a custom dracut module installed as a pre-mount hook (for 
Fedora 
> > 18).  This shell script needs to echo some messages to the console, 
but 
> > I'm having no luck making that happen.  I've tried:
> 
> This is similar to what we ran into with checkisomd5, now that systemctl
> is being used by dracut you need to setup a service with access to the
> console in order for anything to be output (or input).
> 
> The service file for that looks like this:
> 
> [Unit]
> Description=Media check on %f
> DefaultDependencies=no
> Before=shutdown.target
> 
> [Service]
> Type=oneshot
> RemainAfterExit=no
> ExecStart=/bin/checkisomd5 --verbose %f
> StandardInput=tty-force
> StandardOutput=inherit
> StandardError=inherit
> TimeoutSec=0
> 
> You can look at commits 040f3883 and 5204d1d3 in dracut to see how it is
> setup.
> 
> -- 
> Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, 
> WA (PST8PDT)


Thanks for that Brian!  I had pretty much came to that conclusion before 
calling it a day on Friday, but it's very helpful to know that the effort 
to go that route won't be wasted.

--
John Florian

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