On Tue, Dec 12, 2006, Marcus Better wrote: > I retract my previous proposal, and propose instead to send the initial > messages to the syslog. That would be logical for a daemon.
So, something like: start_daemon | while read line; do mylog $line; done with: mylog() { logger -p ... $* } But it might as well support *both* console and syslog, perhaps via LSB (console output can be made less verbose via configuration): . /lib/lsb/init-functions mylog() { logger -p ... $* log_action_begin_msg $* log_action_end_msg } -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "I have no strong feelings one way or the other." -- Neutral President