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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 20:28:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Robert Collins <rbcollins AT cygwin DOT com>
cc: Max Bowsher <maxb AT ukf DOT net>, "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit AT cox DOT net>,
   <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Errors during setup post-install scripts
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On 16 Oct 2002, Robert Collins wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 09:11, Max Bowsher wrote:
> > David A. Cobb wrote:
> > > Would it be a big deal to have the various setup scripts send their
> > > output to, say, /var/log/setup/SCRIPTNAME.log?
> >
> > Probably not, but someone has to actually do it.
>
> It's been discussed in the cygwin-apps list, at length.

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?  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).  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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