On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 10:33 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > On Tuesday 02 October 2007 07:09, Ian Kent wrote: > > > I tried 5.0.2 today, summary: > > > > > > -s --stderr missing > > > -f --foreground works, not mentioned in help text > > > > Are you sure you applied the additional foreground logging patch (well > > actually if you test 5.0.2 you should really apply all the patches > > listed in patch_order-5.0.2 to get a "current state" view). > > Hmmm... no. > > > Are you the same person that originally contributed these patches? > > I have the name "Denis Vlasenko" in the original patch emails. > > Yes. "Denys" is my country's officialdom's idea how to transliterate > my name into Latin letters. [idiots]
HaHaha, right. > > > Anyway, I never quite completely apply the patches but what we have now > > is fairly close. In particular I haven't provided a distinct "log to > > stderr". Over the considerable time this has been present I've rarely > > needed to use the foreground option but when I have I've always wanted > > to send the log to my tty. Especially since you can just redirect the > > output if you need to when running in foreground. > > I don't understand you. Currently, even it --foreground mode > automount logs everything to syslog, IIRC. > Hot do you redirect that? To where? The recent patch for foreground logging will send everything to stderr unconditionally. I should have realized you wouldn't get this bit, sorry. > > I want to be able to direct log to be on stderr or stdout > (I log each daemon's output separately by capturing those). Yep, got it. Hopefully the patch I mentioned above will do what's needed. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
