On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, David A. Cobb wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > >On 16 Oct 2002, Robert Collins wrote: > > > >>On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 09:11, Max Bowsher wrote: > >> > >>>David A. Cobb wrote: > >>> > >>>>Would it be a big deal to have the various setup scripts send their > >>>>output to, say, /var/log/setup/SCRIPTNAME.log? > >>>> > >>>Probably not, but someone has to actually do it. > >>> > >>It's been discussed in the cygwin-apps list, at length. > > > >I'm looking into a simple-minded way to do this, and this raised at least > >one question: do we actually need the output of the post-install scripts > >flashing in front of our eyes? > > > IMO, no - the screen displays generally flash past too fast to be read > anyway. Just log it! > > >If not, I can just redirect it to a file, > >say, /var/log/setup.log.postinstall (there's probably no need for a > >separate file per script). > > > Well, it needs to be fairly simple to tell which script failed - if any. > > >If we actually want the console windows, it'll take some more doing, > >probably a separate console tee-like application. > > Igor
I was planning to bracket the script output with 'Running <scriptname>' and 'Done <scriptname>'. This should be enough... Now, if only I could get setup to build... :-( Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular Science, Oct'02, p.51 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/