On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:10:41 +0000, David W Noon wrote:

> > Also, for builds, there is such a
> >thing as elogs (which allows you to save all messages to 
> >/var/log/portage for ease of reading at your leisure.  
> 
> I have mine go to /var/log/portage/log.  But these only log the
> activities within a single ebuild, not the other housekeeping that goes
> on in an emerge job.  The output of a batch job contains the lot.

As do the log files in $PORT_LOGDIR, they contain exactly the same output
you would see in the terminal. I emerge packages with the -j 2 option,
which hides all the output unless an ebuild fails, but it is still in
the logs. Elog information is mailed to me.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

One of the nice things about standards is that there are so many of them.