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Re: dpkg.log reworked



On Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 12:05:47PM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 08:51:42PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > Previously Ben Collins wrote:
> > > Ok, here's how I see it working (the almighty master plan ;)
> >
> > Simpler version:
> [..]
> > log_stuff() {
> > 	echo $@ | logger -p local6.info -t "pkg:foo-dev"
> > }
>
> I can't think of any reason not to have an echo $@ there so stuff goes to
> stdout too.  Unless of course you might want it to go to stderr, but
> there's ways to do that too..

logstuff() {
    echo $@ | logger -s -p local6.info -t "pkg:foo-dev"
}

The -s sends output to stderr as well as syslog

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