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


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