Package: laptop-mode-tools
Version: 1.11-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

When setting VERBOSE_OUTPUT=1 it truncated /var/log/acpid and only
the last few lines are present.
This is due to the "> /dev/stdout" redirections.
This is solved by changing them to ">> /dev/stdout"

Hyper-compressed patch :-)
    sed -i 's/ \(> \?$OUTPUT\)/ >\1/g;' laptop_mode

BTW maybe this should be notified to the acpid maintainer as well
as this is not normal that a simple "client" handler can kill
all the logfile of acpid!

Just for fun because it puzzled me:
    $ echo one > /tmp/t; ( echo two >/dev/stdout ) >> /tmp/t;cat /tmp/t
    two
So you can indeed destroy a file even with the >> operator!

Phil

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages laptop-mode-tools depends on:
ii  powermgmt-base                1.23       Common utils and configs for power

Versions of packages laptop-mode-tools recommends:
ii  acpid                         1.0.4-3    Utilities for using ACPI power man
ii  apmd                          3.2.2-4    Utilities for Advanced Power Manag
ii  hdparm                        6.3-3      tune hard disk parameters for high

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