severity 646425 wishlist thanks Hi!
On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 08:49:39 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.15.8.8 > Severity: important > 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). Well, I would not consider anything that requires --background a proper daemon. As stated on the man page this is a last resort option with its implied drawbacks. > 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. While it would certainly be possible, I think it would be better to modify such daemon to do proper daemonization and logging (either to a file or via syslog), this usually should not amount to many lines of C code. thanks, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
