Comment 36 for bug 98955

> Yes, I sure understand that you don't want to be a maintainer for it, that
> would probably be quite a lot of work. For me the [ok] comes on it's own
> separate:
> Sun Jan 27 21:52:32 2008: * Starting system message bus dbus
> Sun Jan 27 21:52:32 2008: [ OK ]
>
> Is this intentional? Otherwise this seems much nicer than before.

Well, bootlogd *has* a maintainer, it's Debian sysvinit team. Maybe I'll send the fixes
there some day.

The OK placement is yes, sort of intentional. They use a lot of terminal trickery to make
output look better, and logging it correctly would require many changes to the code.
I had to choose from a couple of simple rules, and the other choices led to worse results.
After all, this "OK" is a separate message and its timing may be useful.

You can make it appear on the same line by changing the source as follows.
Go to bootlog.c line 361, there will be a part of switch like this:

case '\n':
case '\r":
   ...

Change it to:

case '\r':
    break;
case '\n':
   ...

(that is, interchange the two cases and insert "break;" between them).
But then you will lose, among other things, the summary of a long fsck run
(it will be truncated as a part of one extra long line).