how log messages from console?

[Guest hawkeyeIX]

I search a solution for logging console messages to a log files?

 

On my server I run qmail MTA. After patching qmail-smtpd with the specific goodrcptto patch some specific messages from qmail-smtpd appears on console only. No matter what I tried, I can't send this console output to a file.

 

This is the relevant command from the tcpserver launcher:

 

env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \

/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c20 -u399 -g399 0 smtp \

/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw MYIPADDR \

/bin/true & 2>&1 > /var/log/mail/badmaillog

 

How can I send the console output from qmail-smtpd to a file?

 

Thanxs,

Thomas

[pmpatrick]

There's a command called "script" which will log everything you type or that is outputted in the terminal to a log file. See this thread where I asked about the same thing and johnnyv's answer:

 

http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtop...803&hl=terminal

[bvc]

name_of_app 2>&1 | tee name_of.log

 

and maybe take out the & after /bin/true?

 

tee is what allows you to still see it in the console.

 

Oh, just read the thread....tee is there

Edited October 7, 2004 by bvc

[Guest hawkeyeIX]

Hi,

 

name_of_app 2>&1 | tee name_of.log

 

tee, of course. Thanks, that's the solution I was searching.

 

and maybe take out the & after /bin/true?

 

it shall be a background process so the & should be correct, isn't it?

 

Thomas