27 Mar
2009
27 Mar
'09
9:05 a.m.
rein@OpenLDAP.org wrote:
For programs that produce real output (slapcat, ldapsearch) this might be true, but for those that don't (slapadd, slapd) I totally disagree. Stderr is for errors, not chatty progress or debug messages. I always hate it when the error messages gets burried in lots of noice.
My preference is to have progress and debug messages on stdout, enabled by options or at least possible to disable by options. Real output must be possible to send to a file specified as argument, to separate it from the progress and debug noice. Stderr is for error messages, and possibly out-of-band messages.
+1
Ciao, Michael.