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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting tar "--totals" writes to stderr not stdout? Post 302452948 by Corona688 on Monday 13th of September 2010 01:28:32 PM
Old 09-13-2010
Traditionally, stdout is used for data while stderr is used for readable messages, including errors and debugging info and statistics.
 

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odutil(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 odutil(1)

NAME
odutil -- allows caller to examine or change state of opendirectoryd(8) SYNOPSIS
odutil show [cache | sessions | nodes | modules | requests | nodenames | statistics | all] odutil show configuration nodename [module modulename] [option option] odutil reset [cache | statistics] odutil set log [default | alert | critical | error | warning | notice | info | debug] odutil set configuration nodename [module modulename] option option value1 ... odutil set statistics [on | off] DESCRIPTION
Use odutil to look at internal state information for opendirectoryd, enable or disable logging, or change statistics settings. Available commands: show Show various internal information. Subcommands: cache Outputs contents of the cache. Note, this output is not included in show all command. sessions List all open sessions nodes List all open nodes modules List all loaded modules requests List all active requests statistics Outputs statistics information. Some statistics are always enabled (membership). Additional statistics can be enabled see 'set statistics on'. nodenames List all available node names all List all of the above information (excludes cache) show configuration nodename Show configuration of a specific node, Subcommands: module modulename Specific module is requested, otherwise global options option option Output a value of a specific option. reset Reset various internal information. Subcommands: cache Resets all caches including membership and kernel (does not affect DNS cache) statistics Resets any accumulated statistics. set log Changes logging level. Levels are lowest to highest. This state is persistent across reboots and must be changed to a new level or 'default'. alert Enables logging of messages of alert level or lower critical Enables logging of messages of critical level error | default Enables logging of messages of error level or lower (default value) warning Enables logging of messages of warning level notice Enables logging of messages of notice level or lower info Enables logging of messages of info level or lower debug Enables logging of messages of debug level or lower set configuration nodename Sets either global or per-module options accordingly. module modulename If module is omitted, then global option is assumed. option option value1 ... Set a specific option to one or more values as appropriate. set statistics Enables or disables extended statistics. Statistics include per-process-name call statistics and per-API call and latencies. This setting is persistent across reboots and should not normally be run as it is memory intensive. on Enables statistics tracking off Disables statistics tracking SEE ALSO
opendirectoryd(8) BSD
Jan 18, 2012 BSD
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