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Re: D-I TODO item (syslog stuff)



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On Monday 17 May 2004 22:28, Jon Peatfield wrote:
> While reading debian-installer/installer/doc/TODO I spotted the
> following:
>
>  * There needs to be a centralised logging method. Syslog will do, but
>    we currently have a lot of nasty code that appends messages to
>    /var/log/messages directly. All of that would be converted to pipe
>    it to logger. However, this is a problem, because piping a command
>    to logger loses the exit status of the command. Need some way to
>    run a command, logging the ouput to syslog, w/o losing exit status.
>
> Is this in fact still outstanding?

I vaguely remembered seeing this before. Googling the list archives I found:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/03/msg03137.html

Don't know if anything has been done with it though.

Cheers,
FJP
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