On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 12:21:37PM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > But the problem is that foo may produce output and this will break up the nice > single-line format. I don't mind deverting stdout to /dev/null, but I am > reluctant to divert stderr to /dev/null and error messages will also break up > formatting:
I'm thinking that it would be very useful to redirect stderr to a file (say /var/log/boot/<pacakge>.error). It happens far too often that the error message scrolls off the screen, then fonty/gdm/etc. starts making scrolling back impossible. Gabor -- --------------------------------------------------------- MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences --------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]