On 6/16/07, Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Saturday 16 June 2007 19:32:17 Dan Nicholson wrote:
> > Don't suppress stderr for some utilities. This can hide critical errors
> > during boot. For instance, I had an issue where mountfs was returning
> > with critical errors, but I couldn't see this issue. It turns out it was
> > just a missing mountpoint in /etc/fstab. This would have been easy to
> > spot of stderr from mount hadn't been suppressed.
>
> There's another couple of instances in console and the if{down,up} scripts.
> There may be reasons why these were left alone - I've only done a simple
> grep, not analysed them yet. Also, I'd prefer the instances in modules were
> removed in this patch, rather than the cleanup patch - that way all the
> stderr suppression removal is in the same place. That's really picking nits
> though.
OK, fixed. I'm gonna push this one. The other ones should be separate.
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Dan
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