echo writes to stdout, which is by default redirected to /dev/null. You could try to use "logwrapper", but I am not sure it will work in init.rc (it does work in "regular" sh scripts).
Pieter On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 8:30:27 PM UTC+2, 9exceptionThrower9 wrote: > > > I am modifying the respective "init.rc" found in ~/system/core/rootdir" > and "init.tuna.rc" in "~/device/samsung/tuna" files so that there are a few > echo commands to help me debug. > > Does anyone know if Google/Android's RC files do not allow Linux syntax > like this? I am using a line of code inserted at various points within the > RC file such as: > > *# Checkpoint 0.1 > echo "Check 0.1: About to create basic filesystem structure and set > up the wpa_supplicant configuration!" >>& `pwd`/Desktop/boot_log_general.txt > * > > I am trying to reroute the normal output to a file I can find elsewhere > and view to at least how far the phone steps in the boot process at the > initialization stage. Should this work or is there developer > command/syntax to get some kind of output from the RC? > > Any guidance to help me set up at least this kind of rudimentary kind of > debugging during the boot process would be greatly appreciated! > -- unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel
