[systemd-devel] [PATCH] allow explicit stdout/stderr configuration for SysV services

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 01.03.11 11:04, Andrey Borzenkov (arvidjaar at gmail.com) wrote:

> > Hmm, how would you use this? Send SysV stdout to /dev/null, but SysV
> > stderr to the console? Is this really advisable? i.e. are you sure that
> > if current init scripts encounter an error they properly write warnings
> > to stderr, instead of just echoing them to stdout?
> >
> 
> I do not really need SysVStandardError, it was just monkey job, you
> know :) copy'n'paste from DefaultStandardOutput/Error

Hee, I din't want to suggest that you should remove the stderr part from
the patch. I just do wonder how precisely you are planning to make use
of this, just to know the context for your patch. I can see good use in
your patch, just wondering how precisely you'd make use of it and how
you would ship things by default.

I think if we do this, then we should have seperate options for stdout
and stderr, simply to mirror how we do it for the the other stdio
related options.

How are you planning to use this? connect stdout of all services to
/dev/null, and stderr to syslog? I guess such a default configuration
coming from upstream might make sense: that way all errors would go to
syslog, and the [ OK ] output would just go to /dev/null, since it is
duplicate with what systemd generates anyway. The only problem with that
I see is that syslog implementations started with sysv scripts would end
up in a cyclic loop, and I don't know how to fix this...

Lennart

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