Package: coreutils Version: 8.26-3 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Hi,
timeout should (optionally) emit an error message when the timeout is reached. This would make debugging a range of issues easier, but my case in point is ceph, which has, in a service file: ExecStart=/bin/sh -c 'timeout 120 flock /var/lock/ceph-disk-$(basename %f) /usr/sbin/ceph-disk --verbose --log-stdout trigger --sync %f' Currently nothing is logged when this timeout is reached, which made debugging a startup issue needlessly fiddly. It would be good to have an option (e.g. --log-on-exit or --verbose or somesuch) which would make timeout say something like "timeout elapsed, killing ...". Thanks, Matthew -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.52-3+b1 ii libattr1 1:2.4.47-2+b2 ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1 ii libselinux1 2.6-3+b1 coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
