Re: Log handling
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 04:17:21PM +0200, Joey Hess wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > > (I find it's easy to forget to pass the first parameter to log-output,
> > > at least early in the morning. I hope I caught all such mistakes.)
> >
> > Mmm, yes. Maybe I should have done that differently, but it's probably
> > too late now ...
>
> If you want to fix it, you could convert it to a switch. A simple search
> and replace should be able to change all the existing uses, none of them
> are released yet.
Seems reasonable. I've made it be 'log-output -t TAG', like logger(1),
released debian-installer-utils 1.15, and updated all callers.
> > Well, partly it was just to have something to do with tty3 ... I guess
> > seeing the debootstrap log in real time isn't as useful to users as it
> > used to be now that base-installer has a better progress bar.
> >
> > I don't know what else to put on tty3 if we ditch /var/log/messages.
> > Tetris? :-)
>
> login: ?
>
> At least for development more than 1 shell would be useful.
Seems like a reasonable plan.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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