Will McDonald wrote: > On 12/09/06, Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de> wrote: >> Will McDonald wrote: >> > I'd send STDOUT and STDERR to separate logs for brevity's sake. >> > Something like... >> > >> > tar czvf $destfile $tobetarred > /tmp/tarlog.std 2> /tmp/tarlog.err >> >> If you want to have it brief - why the "v"? > > Pedant. :) > > What I *meant* was then all the errors would be in one place, all the > standard messages in an other, which is kinda brevity. OK. I used the following: tar -cpvzO / --exclude-from=/home/not-file 2>/tmp/tarlog.err | ssh user at ipaddrs "cat > backup.tgz" No messages went to the screen. tarlog.err is 4Mb large. Looked at it for error messages. NONE! not even the one I was getting before routing stderr.out. I did a the -l option, but that should not result in no error messages... So now what? Confused.