On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 6:00 AM, Tuma Wang <wangt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm writing a program to use rsync to do something, and I want to keep the
> output of both in the same log file. My program is writing log to
> /var/log/my.log via syslog() LOG_LOCAL0. I tried to use rsync's
> '--log-file=/var/log/my.log' option; it seems to work to some extent, but
> have some problems:
Don’t use --log-file
Instead put this at the end of the rsync command:
2>&1 >> /var/log/my.log
so instead of
rsync {whatever} --log-file=“$LOG”
use
rsync {whatever} 2>&1 >> "$LOG”
HTH
-- TjL
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