Bug#289801: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#289801: Logtail should output error messages to stderr, not stdout

[Todd Troxell]

Hi Peter

On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 04:03:22PM +1100, Peter Hawkins wrote:
> Logtail should not output error messages to standard output, since this 
> violates the principle of least surprise.

Agreed!  I'll get a patch in shortly.

> In particular, my application was broken by the semantics of logtail changing 
> in version 1.2.21 (when you added switches for the default arguments to 
> logtail). I think this was a bad move -- you broke an interface used by other 
> people for no immediately apparent reason. logtail is _not_ only used by 
> logcheck! Please consider other users of logtail next time you change 
> something.

Agreed again.  I will pay more attention to this in the future.  I am not
entirely sure why this was changed in the first place.

-- 
[   Todd J. Troxell                                         ,''`.
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