Thank you, I really liked the approach to logging and clean style of
os-prober scripts in general.
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Joey Hess <j...@kitenet.net> wrote:
> Eldar Yusupov wrote:
> > I could not find os-prober development mailing, so I could not find any
> other
> > way to find the answer other to ask you in personal by e-mail.
>
> I've CCed our mailing list.
>
> > I've been reading os-prober source and found the following piece of code:
> > log_output () {
> > if type log-output >/dev/null 2>&1; then
> > log-output -t os-prober --pass-stdout $@
> > else
> > $@
> > fi
> > }
> > I have never heard of UNIX command "log-output", which, I suppose,
> redirects
> > the command output to syslog.
> > Google search also did not turn up anything relevant. It seems that it
> would be
> > quite useful command for shell scripting and I'd definitely love to know
> more
> > about it.
>
> It's a component of the Debian installer, as is os-prober, which is why
> os-prober uses it if it's available.
>
> log-output: Runs a command, logging any stdout/stderr output to the
> syslog,
> and preserving the command's exit code. If you use the --pass-stdout
> option,
> it will pass stdout through rather than logging it, so that you can
> redirect
> it to a file or pipe it to another process. Note that the command must be
> in the path, shell builtins won't work.
>
>
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/debian-installer-utils.git;a=blob;f=log-output.c
>
> --
> see shy jo
>
