output from scripts spawned by DBUS method invocations

[David Zeuthen]

On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 15:13 -0500, Christopher Santero wrote:
> I got my hal-system-storage-format script to get executed when a
> client tries to invoke Format on
> org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Unstable (which I can verify since I
> put a sleep statement in the script, which dutifully blocks my test
> program for the duration). Now my question is, how can I get output
> from these scripts? Echoing to stdout or stderr doesn't go anywhere,
> since nothing is done with the stderr file descriptor returned from
> hal_util_helper_invoke_with_pipes when it is called from
> hald_exec_method (hald_dbus.c:2708). Should a watch be placed on the
> stderr_fd returned from that function, which logs the messages?

Well if run you hald manually via the hald/run-hald.sh script it should
appear as the debug output of the daemon. Otherwise you might want to
log to /tmp/somefile.txt or something.

HTH,
David