Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.8.8 Severity: important Hello, there are some daemons that write messages only to stdout/err (so they don't have any "logging" capabilities by themselves).
With the current classic execution line: start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS those messages are lost, and they are the only form of debugging the daemon gives, without them we're forced to start it by-hand (hence the quite high severity). Do you think it's feasable to add an option to redirect those messages to a file? something like --output /path/to/logfile , so we can look there for important msgs. Thanks for considering, Sandro PS: I checked the manpage for the presence of any option interesting, but found nothing. I didn't check the source code (so it might be hidden there?). -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii coreutils 8.5-1 ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-6 ii libc6 2.13-21 ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 ii xz-utils 5.0.0-2 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 0.8.15.8 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
