Re: Incredible Logging

Eric Wick <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Are there something changed in the logging to sn-0.3.4a? The docs told
> me to use a command like
> 
> su news -c "/usr/local/sbin/snget -p3 -c4 2>&1
> >/var/log/news/snget.log" &

What docs did you read that in? I can't find it... 
The line looks fine to me, and should work in bash.

> This line although a "snget -d" log all things to the stdout but not
> to the logfile. The commandline from actual snget told me to use "-o"
> for an outfile. These cause an error

Not surprising, since there is no -o option anymore. :) Seems that Harold
forgot to update that usage-line. (The man page is correct, though.) Patch
below...

  - Patrik


--- snget.c~	Sun Oct  7 03:16:17 2001
+++ snget.c	Sun Jan  6 17:45:08 2002
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@
 
 void usage (void)
 {
-   fail(1, "Usage:%s [-h Bps] [-t timeout] "
-        "[-p concurrency] [-c pipelinedepth] [[-r] -o file]", progname);
+   fail(1, "Usage:%s [-h Bps] "
+        "[-p concurrency] [-c pipelinedepth] [-m max]", progname);
 }
 
 int main(int argc, char **argv)

-- 
  Patrik Rådman  ·  patrik at iki dot fi  ·  http://www.iki.fi/patrik/
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