From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MjVB3-0002oJ-HS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:33:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E493E0917; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 14:42:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice04.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.112]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0599FE0917 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 14:42:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n84EgNhN001408 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 10:42:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sep.dynalias.net (fez.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.190]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id n84EgNGs016687 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 10:42:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: by sep.dynalias.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 867EDD3C81; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 10:42:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 10:42:40 -0400 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Blocked packages emerging xfce4-meta Message-ID: <20090904144240.GA15903@princeton.edu> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20090904060908.823ED8BA@resin13.mta.everyone.net> <200909041540.48099.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200909041540.48099.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 42246907-f238-4292-854c-d265cb430628 X-Archives-Hash: 83dfaaf5cdb45cccab6b3a0fc5dae381 On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 03:40:48PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: > Copy paste from the screen into a mail > > or try with -pv instead of -av. > -a waits for user input and can screw around with STDOUT Also, try adding 2>&1 to your redirect to send STDERR to the file too. I'm not sure whether it is the case here, but oftentimes error messages are not printed on STDOUT. W -- All science is either physics or stamp collecting. ~Ernest Rutherford Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1001 days, 13:33