From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Gk2Vq-0005sD-84 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:55:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAEHrji4010327; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:53:45 GMT Received: from flyingjoke.org (soggy88.drizzle.com [216.162.199.88]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAEHp0ln005272 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:51:01 GMT Received: (qmail 4705 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2006 17:50:58 -0000 Received: from atlantis.flyingjoke.org (192.168.1.8) by atlantis.flyingjoke.org with SMTP; 14 Nov 2006 17:50:58 -0000 Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:50:48 -0800 (PST) From: David Talkington X-X-Sender: dtalk@atlantis.flyingjoke.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] pet peeve: sending normal output to stderr (env-update) Message-ID: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Archives-Salt: cc7def44-2cb5-43f1-94d7-fdc82bf92afe X-Archives-Hash: 0be58d6814799dc60c327dec60834baf -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Why on earth does env-update send this: >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... to stderr instead of stdout? This makes it very difficult to see only abnormal output in a cron job. I stopped using wget because of precisely that irritation. I cannot for the life of me think of a good reason to do this. - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/004B8F8B.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFWgIB5FKhdwBLj4sRAvR+AKCCNDISnN0SQZQTo3Piu3yCEoYP0QCfTZxD 7/sMMrJEkY91a5sw5VR3W5Q= =ELRL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list