Re: How to use lsb init-functions

[Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu>]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 12:21:37PM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote:

> But the problem is that foo may produce output and this will break up the nice
> single-line format.  I don't mind deverting stdout to /dev/null, but I am
> reluctant to divert stderr to /dev/null and error messages will also break up
> formatting:

I'm thinking that it would be very useful to redirect stderr to a file
(say /var/log/boot/<pacakge>.error). It happens far too often that the
error message scrolls off the screen, then fonty/gdm/etc. starts making
scrolling back impossible.

Gabor

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