Prints error messages to stdout
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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bind9 (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: bind9-host
I'm on bind9-host version 1:9.4.2.dfsg.P2-2 (hardy).
The "host" command prints error messages to stdout.
They should be printed to stderr.
Printing them to stdout leads to problems like these:
http://
http://
Repro:
johan@transwarp
Host assasgffgds not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
johan@transwarp
johan@transwarp
1
Wikipedia entry about stderr says that its purpose is "to provide the best chance of being seen even if standard output is redirected":
http://
Changed in bind9: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Changed in bind9 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
LaMont, how did this become "Wishlist"?
I tried to change that classification but couldn't unfortunately :-(.
This is still broken in Karmic (1:9.6. 1.dfsg. P1-3ubuntu0. 2) and "host" still can't be reliably used in any kind of scripts.