Re: [gentoo-user] What the £$%^ happened?

2003-02-07 Thread John Nilsson
Ok so some info IS logged, cat /var/log/everything/current | grep rc-scripts The main problem I'm having is this, where do I redirect stderr to while I have no mounted filesystem? Is there a /dev/unusedfifo I could use? On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 09:45, John Nilsson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 09:1

Re: [gentoo-user] What the £$%^ happened?

2003-02-07 Thread MAL
Mike Williams wrote: On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 11:37, MAL wrote: On a similar note, does anyone else think it would be a good idea for emerge to collate the 'information' text that packages such as portage dump to the console while emerging, to display at the end of a long emerge? OK, portage isn

Re: [gentoo-user] What the £$%^ happened?

2003-02-07 Thread Andy Arbon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 | At the end of every install/update emerge will tell you if there are any | config files to update, *UPDATE THEM*! The tool to do so was moved into | portage for this very reason. | I do update them. I'm not an idiot and I understand the reasons for

Re: [gentoo-user] What the £$%^ happened?

2003-02-07 Thread Mike Williams
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 11:37, MAL wrote: > On a similar note, does anyone else think it would be a good idea for > emerge to collate the 'information' text that packages such as portage > dump to the console while emerging, to display at the end of a long emerge? > > OK, portage isn't a problem a

Re: [gentoo-user] What the £$%^ happened?

2003-02-07 Thread MAL
Mike Williams wrote: At the end of every install/update emerge will tell you if there are any config files to update, *UPDATE THEM*! The tool to do so was moved into portage for this very reason. On a similar note, does anyone else think it would be a good idea for emerge to collate the 'inform

Re: [gentoo-user] What the £$%^ happened?

2003-02-07 Thread John Nilsson
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 09:10, Matt Tucker wrote: > -- John Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thusly: > > > Can you in bash script redirect output to two files? i.e. stdout to > > stdout AND boot.log, stderr to boot.log? And would this caputre the > > output of scriptes executed from this script? >

Re: [gentoo-user] What the £$%^ happened?

2003-02-07 Thread Matt Tucker
-- John Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thusly: > Can you in bash script redirect output to two files? i.e. stdout to > stdout AND boot.log, stderr to boot.log? And would this caputre the > output of scriptes executed from this script? $ man tee -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] What the £$%^ happened?

2003-02-06 Thread John Nilsson
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 05:58, D. Wollmann wrote: > On Thursday 06 February 2003 21:49, Collins Richey wrote: > > On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 23:17:58 + > > > > Andy Arbon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > |>(si

Re: [gentoo-user] What the £$%^ happened?

2003-02-06 Thread D. Wollmann
On Thursday 06 February 2003 21:49, Collins Richey wrote: > On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 23:17:58 + > > Andy Arbon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > |>(sidenote: Is the output produced on boot captured anywhere? I think

Re: [gentoo-user] What the £$%^ happened?

2003-02-06 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 23:17:58 + Andy Arbon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > |>(sidenote: Is the output produced on boot captured anywhere? I think > |>Redhat gives you a /var/log/boot.log.. does Gentoo have an > |equiva

Re: [gentoo-user] What the £$%^ happened?

2003-02-06 Thread Alexander Futasz
On 06 Feb 2003 23:16:24 +, Mike Williams wrote: > At the end of every install/update emerge will tell you if there are > any config files to update, *UPDATE THEM*! The tool to do so was moved > into portage for this very reason. you should put the name too. although emerge will tell you the na

Re: [gentoo-user] What the £$%^ happened?

2003-02-06 Thread Mike Williams
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 23:03, Andy Arbon wrote: > I did my updates today, which I believe included baselayout and > everything seems to have gone a bit weird. The first time I rebooted I > got an error message and the boot stopped and dropped me into emergency > maintenence mode telling me to recrea

Re: [gentoo-user] What the £$%^ happened?

2003-02-06 Thread Andy Arbon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |>(sidenote: Is the output produced on boot captured anywhere? I think |>Redhat gives you a /var/log/boot.log.. does Gentoo have an equivalent?) | dmesg | Thanks for the suggestion, but that's not quite what I was after... Tha

Re: [gentoo-user] What the £$%^ happened?

2003-02-06 Thread herzog
>>On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Andy Arbon wrote: > (sidenote: Is the output produced on boot captured anywhere? I think > Redhat gives you a /var/log/boot.log.. does Gentoo have an equivalent?) dmesg -- Larry Herzog Jr."Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain ZRXOA #1029

[gentoo-user] What the £$%^ happened?

2003-02-06 Thread Andy Arbon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I did my updates today, which I believe included baselayout and everything seems to have gone a bit weird. The first time I rebooted I got an error message and the boot stopped and dropped me into emergency maintenence mode telling me to recrea