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

[Toni Castelli]

Hello Frank,

I'm using Voyage 0.7 and neither of them did work for me(i was using /bin/bash since the beggining). Do you think it could be solved by updating to a newer version?

Thanks for the comment. 

From: Frank Hoeflich 
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 8:50 AM
To: Toni Castelli 
Cc: voyage-linux at voyage.hk 
Subject: Re: [Voyage-linux] log the stdout of a process started by start-stop-daemon

      Toni: 

          Between Voyage 0.6.5 (Lenny) and Voyage 0.7.5 (Squeeze) Debian changed the default sh from bash to dash, and at the time it did indeed cause one of the /bin/sh Voyage scripts to break for me (dash was broken somehow with regard to quoting, don't remember if stdout was a casualty).  I ended up explicitly using /bin/bash in my reworked version of the script and never had a problem again.

          Try both #!/bin/dash and #!/bin/bash explicitly in your script and report back what you find along with your Voyage version, please.


      --Frank

      --- On Tue, 3/27/12, Teco Boot <teco at inf-net.nl> wrote:

        From: Teco Boot <teco at inf-net.nl>
        Subject: Re: [Voyage-linux] log the stdout of a process started by start-stop-daemon
        To: "Toni Castelli" <acastelli at keonn.com>
        Cc: voyage-linux at voyage.hk
        Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 11:39 PM


        I did have same kind of issue. I started using bash instead of sh. 
        (1st line: #!/bin/bash)
        Maybe it is a dirty bypass and I should use a clean sh script.
        Teco


        Op 27 mrt. 2012, om 17:58 heeft Toni Castelli het volgende geschreven:


          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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