From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 16 14:34:23 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 40C9A276 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 14:34:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pukruppa.de (pd95cabe3.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.92.171.227]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "pukruppa.de", Issuer "pukruppa.de" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AD8E02252 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 14:34:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pukruppa.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pukruppa.de (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id s7GENr1t053219 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 16:23:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.de) Message-ID: <53EF6979.2080708@pukruppa.de> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 16:23:53 +0200 From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: sh stdout/stderr redirection problem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 14:34:23 -0000 Hi, I have got a python3.4 script which I can start from an rc.d script as a daemon this way: daemon -p /var/run/my.pid /path/to/python3.4 /path/to/myscript.py /path/to/python3.4 /path/to/myscript.py produces interesting messages on stdout and stderr, so I would like to collect them in /var/log/my.log . I have tried all kinds of combinations of >>'s and 2>&1's but either I catch daemon's output which is nothing or the script won't start anymore. Any ideas? - Thanks for your help Peter