Yep, thanks, and thanks to the others who pointed it out off list too. I
remember learning this some time ago, but <excuses> I wasn't really even
thinking about that problem, dog burned down, house ran away, I've got a
cold, going to be 40 in another month and my medium term memory is obviously
shot </excuses>.
Oh well, on to the fun stuff that I still remember how to fix...
Todd
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Pool [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 8:28 PM
> To: Todd Robinson
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: transfer interrupted, and Not privileged errors,
>
>
> On 8 Nov 2000, Todd Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > That's pretty strange, for two reasons: as far as I knew, everything
> > > ought to go to stderr, stdout, or the log file. When you say
> > > "console", do you mean it comes out in your current window, or it goes
> > > to the actual VGA adapter/serial console of the server?
> >
> > In the current window the rsync was executed from, even if you redirect
> > stderr someplace else. For instance, I run something just like this:
> >
> > > rsync -avvvz /tmp/rsync-2.4.6/lib fdops3::marktg 2>&1 >
> > > /rsync.txt
>
> Ah, OK. This is because stderr is not actually redirected!
>
> The construct 2>&1 means ``send fd2 (stderr) to wherever fd1 (stdout)
> is pointing *at the moment*''. Since redirections are evaluated in
> order left-to-right, this sends stderr to the terminal (probably where
> it was already going), and then sends stdout to the file. From the
> bash man page:
>
> Note that the order of redirections is significant. For
> example, the command
>
> ls > dirlist 2>&1
>
> directs both standard output and standard error to the
> file dirlist, while the command
>
> ls 2>&1 > dirlist
>
> directs only the standard output to file dirlist, because
> the standard error was duplicated as standard output
> before the standard output was redirected to dirlist.
>
> I still remember the `ah-ha!' moment when this sunk in a few years
> ago.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Martin Pool, Linuxcare, Inc.
> +61 2 6262 8990
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.linuxcare.com/
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