F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Wed Nov 17 21:49:34 UTC 2010


On 11/17/2010 04:22 PM, stan wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:56:04 -0500
> Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:
> 
>> stan wrote:
> 
>>> #Fix console loglevel
>>> if [ -n "$LOGLEVEL" ]; then
>>>        /bin/dmesg -n $LOGLEVEL
>>> else
>>>        /bin/dmesg -n 3
>>> fi
>>
>> /bin/dmesg -n ${LOGLEVEL:-3}
>  
> That's slick.  I presume you meant 
> /bin/dmesg -n ${LOGLEVEL:3}
> changing the -3 to a 3?  I didn't look up the documentation, just
> extrapolating.

Nope.  Read the bash man page.  Particularly the section on parameter
substitution....

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