-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 17 May 2004 22:28, Jon Peatfield wrote: > While reading debian-installer/installer/doc/TODO I spotted the > following: > > * There needs to be a centralised logging method. Syslog will do, but > we currently have a lot of nasty code that appends messages to > /var/log/messages directly. All of that would be converted to pipe > it to logger. However, this is a problem, because piping a command > to logger loses the exit status of the command. Need some way to > run a command, logging the ouput to syslog, w/o losing exit status. > > Is this in fact still outstanding?
I vaguely remembered seeing this before. Googling the list archives I found: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/03/msg03137.html Don't know if anything has been done with it though. Cheers, FJP -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAqSkogm/Kwh6ICoQRAh8zAJ0cOkTmzQoAUmxOv/U9EKg2aFXQjQCgqAvE 4kLLrzCP1LgeLHzIlUpfqQM= =SYqE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

