Re: Debian Boot Floppies CVS: . ezanard
On Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 04:11:30AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Dec 1998 01:04:33 +0000, Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es> said:
>
> > Now that we are talking about documentation, there's another change
> > I would like you to document. In this version, stderr is redirected
> > to tty3 while on "newt-mode". That means the user may switch to that
> > VC and see the error messages, they won't appear under the dialog
> > boxes on tty1.
>
> This is done, though I have seen error messages on tty1 in some
> degenerate situations, btw. I can try to reproduce it if you need
> that.
I guess they happened under "modconf", isn't it? modconf is a shell
script that is called from dbootstrap. That means it runs out of
dbootstrap's "newt-mode" (as it has to call "whiptail" itself), so
stderr is not redirected in that case.
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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