Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On 16 Oct 2002, Robert Collins wrote: > > > >>On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 09:11, Max Bowsher wrote: >> >> >>>David A. Cobb wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Would it be a big deal to have the various setup scripts send their >>>>output to, say, /var/log/setup/SCRIPTNAME.log? >>>> >>>> >>>Probably not, but someone has to actually do it. >>> >>> >>It's been discussed in the cygwin-apps list, at length. >> >> > >I'm looking into a simple-minded way to do this, and this raised at least >one question: do we actually need the output of the post-install scripts >flashing in front of our eyes? > IMO, no - the screen displays generally flash past too fast to be read anyway. Just log it!
>If not, I can just redirect it to a file, >say, /var/log/setup.log.postinstall (there's probably no need for a >separate file per script). > Well, it needs to be fairly simple to tell which script failed - if any. > If we actually want the console windows, it'll >take some more doing, probably a separate console tee-like application. > Igor > > -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace I am a Christian man, by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim; R. M. French, tr. Life is too short to tolerate crappy software. . -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
