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On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:15:40 +0100, "Uwe Thiem" <uwix@××××.na> said: |
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> On 12 July 2007, Frank Wilson wrote: |
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> > I'm trying to debug an init script / daemon I'm trying to run. I can't |
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> > seem to print the debug output to print to a file. For example I |
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> > enter: |
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> > |
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> > /etc/init.d/apache2 restart --debug >> /root/apache2.debug |
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> > or |
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> > /etc/init.d/apache2 restart --debug > /root/apache2.debug |
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> > |
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> > but I get none of the debug output. Also less insists that |
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> > /root/apache2.debug is a binary file... not sure why. |
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> First of all, you should do something like "/etc/init.d/apache2 |
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> restart --debug > /root/apache2.debug 2>&1" to catch both, standard and |
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> error |
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> output. |
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Yes, I agree. |
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> Still, this won't work in your case. The output you usually see on |
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> screen, is |
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> *not* generated by the script (or the executing shell) but by the |
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> commands |
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> used in the script. |
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If it's generated by a command used in the script, it will be sent to |
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the file. stdout is stdout, and if it's redirected to a file in the |
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shell running the script, it will go to the same place in any commands |
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run by that shell, unless they reopen it to another file. |
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> So keep a backup of the original script, then dive into it with your |
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> favourite |
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> editor and append ">> /root/apache2.debug 2>&1" to all relevant commands. |
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I don't think you need to. |
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At worst, wrap the command in parentheses to run it in a subshell, like |
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this: |
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( /etc/init.d/apache2 restart --debug ) > /root/apache2.debug 2>&1 |
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But you shouldn't need that. |
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Just to get this straight... you're trying to capture the output of the |
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initscript, not of Apache itself, right? |
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And as for less thinking it's a binary file, that's because the Gentoo |
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initscripts change the text color using escape codes, which are |
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considered binary by less. (Specifically, the escape character, ASCII |
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27, is probably considered binary.) |
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Hope this helps, |
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Thomas Tuttle |
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