[Jon Peatfield] > While reading debian-installer/installer/doc/TODO I spotted the > following: > > * There needs to be a centralised logging method. Syslog will do, but > we currently have a lot of nasty code that appends messages to > /var/log/messages directly. All of that would be converted to pipe > it to logger. However, this is a problem, because piping a command > to logger loses the exit status of the command. Need some way to > run a command, logging the ouput to syslog, w/o losing exit status. > > Is this in fact still outstanding?
Yes, as far as I know, this is still unsolved. Bastian Blank added a draft in debian-installer-utils, but it was called exec which is a reserved word in the shell, so it didn't work and Joey Hess removed the program again. It would be nice if someone did a new try, as I would like to use such wrapper in ddetect (and probably other places as well). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
