On Sunday 18 October 2009 16:06:38 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > This may be OT, inasmuch as it's not gentoo-specific. It's here because my > system runs Gentoo and I don't know where else to ask. If it annoys, just > point me in the right direction to where it will not be OT, please. > > I'm trying to write scripts to help me grade student submissions in a > systems programming course. Students are just learning about malloc/free > and some are floundering. I'm seeing lots of errors that are caught by > glibc (with some help from compiling with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2), but I would > like instead to capture those messages in a file. It appears that glibc > does not use stdin or stderr for these messages, since I cannot redirect > them. I suspect they are being sent to /dev/tty. > > Is there any wizardry that would allow capture of these messages? I know > that somehow the script(1) command captures such stuff, but it's not > useable since I want all of this scripted and ironically script(1) does > not seem to play nice with scripts. I also know that this is about to tip > me into the abyss of session leaders and controlling terminals, but I'll > try to be brave.
My first thought was way out on left field: could you use syslog-ng to read /dev/tty? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
