[Pm-utils] Re: Dealing with suspend/resume failures

[Holger Macht]

On Mon 13. Nov - 12:48:29, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Holger Macht wrote:
> >>Why can't we use /var/log/pm-{suspend,hibernate}.log created by pm-utils
> >>instead? We are currently working on pm-utils being more verbose.
> >I just see that your patch is actually doing this, redirecting the output
> >of pm-utils (which is the same as the content of the logfile) to the
> >suspend-output file. But maybe we still should just copy it because I like
> >to always have a /var/log/pm-suspend.log file.
> 
> Whether pm-utils writes it's own log file is not something I care too much about; standard rule of thumb is to be 
> quiet if you think the operation went well so by default pm-utils should probably be quiet.

I think pm-utils should be the only one writing a logfile about a thing it
knows about and actually executes.

> 
> I just want pm-utils to be able to take a parameter so dumps useful logging information to stderr such that HAL can 
> store that information somewhere even when the run is succesful. And as HAL is going to delete (or move) it anyway, 
> the file should be owned by HAL, thus the /var/lib/hal location.

pm-utils already prints all its debugging output to stdout if there is no
logfile specified in the functions script. So maybe we should always do
both? But that's out of my experience of shell scripting. Maybe Stefan or
Peter knows how to do that and want to comment if this is desireable. 

Regards,
	Holger