[email protected] (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> 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.
This would be very helpful.
Mark
