[Nix-dev] Upstart 0.6

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

Marc Weber wrote:

>> There is one issue with Upstart 0.6: the stdout/stderr of jobs no longer goes to
>> /var/log/boot, but to the console.  This isn't very elegant, but I don't see an
>> easy solution.  (I guess we can stick an "exec > /var/log/boot 2>&1" in the
>> pre-start script, but you wouldn't get timestamps in the log.)
> We could run it this way
> 
> addtimestamps $THE_SCRIPT or such.

Well, we can obviously pipe the job through "logger" to send it to syslog.  But
this will create a logger process for every job.

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