Philippe Teuwen wrote:
Package: laptop-mode-tools Version: 1.11-1 Severity: normal Tags: patchWhen setting VERBOSE_OUTPUT=1 it truncated /var/log/acpid and only the last few lines are present. This is due to the "> /dev/stdout" redirections. This is solved by changing them to ">> /dev/stdout" Hyper-compressed patch :-) sed -i 's/ \(> \?$OUTPUT\)/ >\1/g;' laptop_mode BTW maybe this should be notified to the acpid maintainer as well as this is not normal that a simple "client" handler can kill all the logfile of acpid! Just for fun because it puzzled me: $ echo one > /tmp/t; ( echo two >/dev/stdout ) >> /tmp/t;cat /tmp/t two So you can indeed destroy a file even with the >> operator!
Wow. This is REALLY weird. Apparently >> simply attaches the output file descriptor to the given file, and the > operator simply does the same but it truncates the output file after attaching. Nice find. :-)
And apparently the logging of acpid is not handled by any syslog daemon. I agree that we should report this to the acpid maintainer as well. As you reported the bug, would you like to take care of this?
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