[Voyage-linux] log the stdout of a process started by start-stop-daemon

[John Coltrane]

Hello Toni,

maybe the "logger" command is your friend

cheers

On 03/27/2012 05:58 PM, Toni Castelli wrote:
> Hello, I’m having some trouble trying to log the stdout and the
> stderror  generated by an application when it is started by an init.d
> script.
>  
> What im trying to run is something like this:
>  
> $logFile=/var/log/test.log
>  
> if [ ! "$logFile" == "" ]; then
>                touch $logFile || exit 2
>                start-stop-daemon --start --make-pidfile  --pidfile
> $PIDFILE  --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_ARGS  >> $logFile 2>&1 &
> else ....
>  
> when I try to run the script from bash it works perfectly, but when it
> runs after a reboot, the log file isn’t generated. I’m suspecting it
> could be a matter of mounting the file system after starting my
> script, but I’ve checked the execution number and its the last one it
> shares the number with some other processes). Anyone can guess what’s
> wrong with the code?
>
>
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