Errors during setup post-install scripts

[David A. Cobb]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

>On 16 Oct 2002, Robert Collins wrote:
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>>On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 09:11, Max Bowsher wrote:
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>>>David A. Cobb wrote:
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>>>>Would it be a big deal to have the various setup scripts send their
>>>>output to, say, /var/log/setup/SCRIPTNAME.log?
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>>>Probably not, but someone has to actually do it.
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>>It's been discussed in the cygwin-apps list, at length.
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>I'm looking into a simple-minded way to do this, and this raised at least
>one question: do we actually need the output of the post-install scripts
>flashing in front of our eyes?  
>
IMO, no - the screen displays generally flash past too fast to be read 
anyway.  Just log it!

>If not, I can just redirect it to a file,
>say, /var/log/setup.log.postinstall (there's probably no need for a
>separate file per script).
>
Well, it needs to be fairly simple to tell which script failed - if any.

>  If we actually want the console windows, it'll
>take some more doing, probably a separate console tee-like application.
>	Igor
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David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
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