Re: how to get stderr ouput from scripts?

[Mark Burgess]

Cfengine captures both stdout+stderr by default.

M

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 11:44 +0200, Predrag Zecevic - Solaris System
Administrator wrote:
> Sorry if this have created confusion!
> What I am really meant is
>    'how to pass stderr messages from shell back to human IF shell is ran 
> by cfengine'?
> 
> Regards ;-)
> 
> Mark Burgess wrote:
> 
> >Cfengine does not write to stderr
> >
> >M
> >
> >On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 09:43 +0200, Predrag Zecevic - Solaris System
> >Administrator wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I cannot recall that somebody mentioned this problem:
> >>
> >>    * suppose that I have cfengine conf file which has rules for
> >>      modifying some application conf file (editfiles section, and for
> >>      example httpd.conf)
> >>    * after editing httpd.conf file, normal action would be to restart
> >>      apache (shellcommands section)
> >>    * and it looks like it doesn't meter if I pass '-x' switch to shell
> >>      (/etc/init.d/apache file) or not: I will always get same output
> >>      from cfengine restart (Inform=On)
> >>
> >>Question is how to get stderr out from cfengine?
> >>
> >>BTW: version 2.1.11/RHES3
> >>
> >>    
> >>
>