(17-12-2020, 08:45 AM)freem Wrote: Anyone knows such tool

Not really, but it’s a nice idea. Output on tty1 has become super useless over the years (starting with KMS, which nukes half the output midway through). Showing something meaningful instead would be lovely.

It’s really strange, now that I think about it. Why are we flying blind? Why isn’t what you proposed already the standard? Servers have proper monitoring (hopefully), but on the desktop, nope, let’s just hope for the best. Weird.

Actually, this might even be interesting for our servers. Sometimes I do reboot them and watch their VNC/serial console, I see all that useless output scrolling by … but no idea if everything’s fine. I have to check something like Icinga for that.

Hmm … Might be a project for the upcoming vacation? :) (If I do it, I’d probably go for something systemd-based, though, since that’s what we run.)

(17-12-2020, 08:45 AM)freem Wrote: Ideally, it would work with any POSIX system

This might be a dumb question, but how do you check if a particular daemon is running in a POSIX-ly portable way?