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-.Dd April 12, 2002
-.Dt ConsoleMessage 8
-.Os Darwin
-.Sh NAME
-.Nm ConsoleMessage
-.\" The following lines are read in generating the apropos(man -k) database. Use only key
-.\" words here as the database is built based on the words here and in the .ND line.
-.\" Use .Nm macro to designate other names for the documented program.
-.Nd Send a message to
-.Nm SystemStarter
-.Sh SYNOPSIS
-.Nm
-.Op Fl v
-.Ar message
-.Nm
-.Op Fl v
-.Fl S
-.Nm
-.Op Fl v
-.Fl F
-.Nm
-.Op Fl v
-.Fl s Ar service
-.Nm
-.Op Fl v
-.Fl f Ar service
-.Nm
-.Op Fl v
-.Fl q Ar setting
-.Nm
-.Op Fl v
-.Fl b Ar path
-.Nm
-.Op Fl v
-.Fl u
-.Sh DESCRIPTION
-The
-.Nm
-utility may be used by startup item scripts to send messages to
-.Nm SystemStarter
-(see SystemStarter(8)).
-.Pp
-The default behavior is to send the specified
-.Ar message
-to
-.Nm SystemStarter
-to be displayed on the console.
-.Nm SystemStarter
-will attempt to localize the string using the current startup item's localization dictionaries.
-.Pp
-.Nm
-may also be used to give feedback to
-.Nm SystemStarter
-indicating which services provided by the startup item have succeeded or failed.
-.Sh OPTIONS
-.Bl -tag -width -indent
-.It Fl v
-verbose mode (prints errors to stdout)
-.It Fl S
-mark all services provided by this item as successful
-.It Fl F
-mark all services provided by this item as failed
-.It Fl s
-mark the
-.Ar service
-as successful
-.It Fl f
-mark the
-.Ar service
-as failed
-.It Fl q
-query
-.Nm SystemStarter
-for the value of the configuration variable
-.Ar setting
-(result will be printed to stdout).
-.It Fl b
-Tell
-.Nm SystemStarter
-to load the display bundle at the specified
-.Ar path
-.It Fl u
-Tell
-.Nm SystemStarter
-to unload the current display bundle
-.El
-.Sh NOTES
-When a
-.Ar service
-name is not specified,
-.Nm
-assumes its parent process identification (see getppid(2)) is that of a startup item script, and uses that token to find the correct list of services provided by the current item. If the process calling
-.Nm
-is not a startup item script, it is necessary to explicitly provide
-.Ar service
-names.
-.Sh SEE ALSO
-.\" List links in ascending order by section, alphabetically within a section.
-.\" Please do not reference files that do not exist without filing a bug report
-.Xr SystemStarter 8
-.\" .Sh BUGS \" Document known, unremedied bugs
-.Sh HISTORY
-The
-.Nm
-utility appeared in Darwin 6.0