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Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
>   So, to start with, I'd like to propose to make it possible for boot
> process to log to syslog. I have following in mind:
> 
> 1. Make a convention that boot/service scripts should use "$echo"
> instead of "echo" to do output.
> 2. Have default define of "echo=echo" for this.
I think some function should suffice.
aliasing is possible too.
Function could be more flexible solution.


> 3. Turn /etc/init.d/syslogd into /etc/init.d/syslogd.sh so it was
> sourced by /etc/init.d/rc and could export new value for the rest of
> scripts.
I don't see why.

> 5. Using syslogd for boot messages capture is of course optional.
I don't see why.
We can log to multiple places.


All the best,
S.