On Tuesday 02 October 2007 07:09, Ian Kent wrote:
> > I tried 5.0.2 today, summary:
> > 
> > -s --stderr       missing
> > -f --foreground   works, not mentioned in help text
> 
> Are you sure you applied the additional foreground logging patch (well
> actually if you test 5.0.2 you should really apply all the patches
> listed in patch_order-5.0.2 to get a "current state" view).

Hmmm... no.

> Are you the same person that originally contributed these patches?
> I have the name "Denis Vlasenko" in the original patch emails.

Yes. "Denys" is my country's officialdom's idea how to transliterate
my name into Latin letters. [idiots]

> Anyway, I never quite completely apply the patches but what we have now
> is fairly close. In particular I haven't provided a distinct "log to
> stderr". Over the considerable time this has been present I've rarely
> needed to use the foreground option but when I have I've always wanted
> to send the log to my tty. Especially since you can just redirect the
> output if you need to when running in foreground.

I don't understand you. Currently, even it --foreground mode
automount logs everything to syslog, IIRC.
Hot do you redirect that? To where?

I want to be able to direct log to be on stderr or stdout
(I log each daemon's output separately by capturing those).
--
vda

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