> On 8/3/11, Arthur Dent <misc.lists@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>> Wow! really useful advice! Thank You.
>> As Hiisi says - Tip of the Day and I also agree that syslog+console
>> should be the default.
>
> Unfortunately, systemd's parallelization of service startup make
> output on the console extremely ugly during boot, because several
> different commands would output to the screen at the same time and be
> all mixed together.

Isn't it possible for you to tell if you were started from a console and output to it if so?  I seem to remember writing a script one time that needed to do that (i.e. output information if called from the command line but be silent when called from cron).
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