Will McDonald wrote: > On 12/09/06, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: >> 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 $tobetarred > /tmp/tarlog.std 2> /tmp/tarlog.err >> >> >> >> If you want to have it brief - why the "v"? >> > >> > Pedant. :) >> > >> > What I *meant* was then all the errors would be in one place, all the >> > standard messages in an other, which is kinda brevity. >> OK. I used the following: >> >> >> tar -cpvzO / --exclude-from=/home/not-file 2>/tmp/tarlog.err | ssh >> user at ipaddrs "cat > backup.tgz" >> >> >> No messages went to the screen. tarlog.err is 4Mb large. Looked at it >> for error messages. >> >> NONE! not even the one I was getting before routing stderr.out. I did >> a the -l option, but that should not result in no error messages... >> >> So now what? >> >> Confused. > > It appears when you tar to STDOUT it redirects the usual STDOUT > messages to STDERR, in addition to the errors, so I guess a separate > error log when tar-ing to STDOUT's out. > > [wmcdonald at stella /]$ tar cpvzO /proc/ 1> /tmp/proc.stdout > 2>/tmp/proc.stderr > [wmcdonald at stella /]$ file /tmp/proc.* > /tmp/proc.stderr: ASCII text > /tmp/proc.stdout: gzip compressed data, from Unix > [wmcdonald at stella /]$ ah, will try this tomorrow. > Dropping the 'O' option and using - behaves the same... Is there an advantage of one over the other? Origin note I found had the '-' and I changed it to 'O' > > [wmcdonald at stella /]$ tar cpvz - /proc/ 1> /tmp/proc.stdout > 2>/tmp/proc.stderr > [wmcdonald at stella /]$ file /tmp/proc.* > /tmp/proc.stderr: ASCII text > /tmp/proc.stdout: gzip compressed data, from Unix > > Will. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >