On Friday 04 September 2009 16:42:40 Willie Wong wrote: > On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 03:40:48PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: > > Copy paste from the screen into a mail > > > > or try with -pv instead of -av. > > -a waits for user input and can screw around with STDOUT > > Also, try adding 2>&1 to your redirect to send STDERR to the file too. > I'm not sure whether it is the case here, but oftentimes error messages > are not printed on STDOUT.
In this case the poster is talking about emerge's normal output. While this may be many things, it will never ever be sent to STDERR so the inclusion of 2> is certain to change nothing. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
