logsave

LOGSAVE(8)							   LOGSAVE(8)



NAME
       logsave - save the output of a command in a logfile

SYNOPSIS
       logsave [ -asv ] logfile cmd_prog [ ... ]

DESCRIPTION
       The  logsave  program  will  execute cmd_prog with the specified argu-
       ment(s), and save a copy of its output to logfile.  If the  containing
       directory for logfile does not exist, logsave will accumulate the out-
       put in memory until it can be written out.  A copy of the output	 will
       also be written to standard output.

       If cmd_prog is a single hyphen (’-’), then instead of executing a pro-
       gram, logsave will take its input from standard input and save  it  in
       logfile

       logsave	is useful for saving the output of initial boot scripts until
       the /var partition is  mounted,	so  the	 output	 can  be  written  to
       /var/log.

OPTIONS
       -a     This  option  will  cause the output to be appended to logfile,
	      instead of replacing its current contents.

       -s     This option will cause logsave to skip writing to the log	 file
	      text which is bracketed with a control-A (ASCII 001 or Start of
	      Header) and control-B (ASCII  002	 or  Start  of	Text).	 This
	      allows  progress	bar  information to be visible to the user on
	      the console, while not being written to the log file.

       -v     This option will make logsave to be more verbose in its  output
	      to the user.

AUTHOR
       Theodore Ts’o (tytso@mit.edu)

SEE ALSO
       fsck(8)



E2fsprogs version 1.35		February 2004			   LOGSAVE(8)