Re: Redirection of STDERR

[Stephen Samuel <samuel@bcgreen.com>]

Christoph Pleger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> In my initialization scripts for hotplug (written for bash) the
> following command is used to redirect output which normally goes to
> stderr to the system logger:
> 
> "exec 2> >(logger -t $0[$$])"
I don't remember this syntax as legal.
what I'd use would be:
exec some_command 2>&1  | logger -t "$0[$$]"


On the other hand, this could replace the script you're
running with something that may never exit.. (sepending
on what the command does)

> 
> With kernel 2.4 this command works fine, but with kernel version 2.6.3
> it leads to a system hang.

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