Package: dpkg
Version: 1.16.0.2
Severity: wishlist

It would be nice to have --stderr, --stdout and --stdin options to control
the IO of the daemon process.
This seems to be a common requirement with badly behaved server processes.
Some background links:

http://serverfault.com/questions/162602/stdout-stderr-redirects-in-start-stop-daemon

http://bugs.gentoo.org/138409

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/writing-debian-init-script-for-process-that-has-no-syslog-integration-881500/

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  coreutils               8.5-1            GNU core utilities
ii  libbz2-1.0              1.0.5-6          high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-13        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libselinux1             2.0.98-1         SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  xz-utils                5.0.0-2          XZ-format compression utilities
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

dpkg recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii  apt                           0.8.10.3   Advanced front-end for dpkg

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