Excerpts from Heiko Baums's message of Do Jan 27 14:23:25 +0100 2011: > Am Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:50:31 +0100 > schrieb Jan Spakula <bender02@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > Another slight annoyance comes from the lines (from rc.sysinit) > > > > # isLuks only gives an exit code but no output to > > # stdout or stderr. > > if $CS isLuks "$2"; then > > open=luksOpen > > a="$2" > > b="$1" > > fi > > > > It's not true that there's no output; I get the message > > "Device /dev/vg/swap is not a valid LUKS device." > > every time I boot :) > > But this is the output on the console. For those if clauses you need a > boolean (true or false resp. 0 or 1) and this is not given by > cryptsetup isLuks. This value is only given as an exit code. So this > part of the script is absolutely correct and the only way to handle > this. I like clause with exit codes much better that any funky checking for a message ;) I was addressing the comment in the script that it "..gives no output"; silently suggesting to explicitly silence the cryptsetup call, so that no unnecessary messages are displayed during booting. Jan
