Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> writes: > Hello, > > ng0 <[email protected]> skribis: > >> Sometimes I succeed building a system generation with an OpenSMTPD >> config-file >> which has syntax error that aren't picked up at configure time. When I >> reboot, >> not being aware of this, I have to switch to tty to read the reasons why it >> crashed. >> Because this is a desktop system, I have to start the service again to see >> the error output directly from the daemon. > > I think shepherd could capture stdout/stderr of the processes it starts > and make it available, in a way similar in spirit to what ‘journalctl’ > does. That would allow you to see the output of the daemon that failed.
That would be great! > That’s the only solution I can think of. Of course we don’t have to do > that if the daemon writes error messages to syslog, but not all of them do. > > Thanks, > Ludo’.
