On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 07:12 +0000, Peter Funk wrote: > This is a question from a third party software developer: I've to support a > legacy application > package which used to add an entry to /etc/inittab on traditional Unix/Linux > systems to > start (and respawn) a certain demon. > > When Ubuntu moved to upstart I added a /etc/event.d/-file template. Later I > was forced to > add an additional *.conf template for /etc/init directory. My question is: > What do I have to put > into these files to get the stderr output of this demon into the syslog on > all versions of > Ubuntu? (we have a lot of 8.04 LTS still in use in the field; moving slowly > to 10.04 LTS) > For me it is very difficult to figure this out. Thanks in advance. > Is installing a backported upstart package a viable option? How much risk is > that? >
Peter, have you tried piping the output of the executed command to logger? As in exec /usr/sbin/foobard | logger -t foobard ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328881 Title: init: support logging of job output -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
