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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Event logging to file and display to console | tee command is not able to log all info. Post 302601870 by DGPickett on Friday 24th of February 2012 04:37:58 PM
Old 02-24-2012
It sunds more like a quoting imbalance, where the te got hidden.
Code:
"  | tee -a ${filename} . . ."

I usually go for the quieter:
Code:
(
everything, but simpler -- no redirection, pipes, multiple tee's
) 2>&1 | tee ${filename-with-date-to-second}

The there is the ever favorite no tee, just log to file, and to watch:
Code:
tail -n +0 -f ${filename}

Sometimes long commands, even sub-shells and scripts, will buffer, stopping mid-line, but usually at each command end the log catches up.

Programmers can help by either calling flush() periodically to clean FILE* buffers, or initially calling setvbuf() to configure line buffering. I used to use setvbuf for a huge buffer, and flush to write whole log blocks in one piece, because I had many servers writing the same logs.
 

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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT

ng_tee

NG_TEE(4)                                                  BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual                                                  NG_TEE(4)

NAME

     ng_tee -- netgraph ``tee'' node type

SYNOPSIS

     #include <sys/types.h>
     #include <netgraph/ng_tee.h>

DESCRIPTION

     The tee node type has a purpose similar to the tee(1) command.  Tee nodes are useful for debugging or ``snooping'' on a connection between
     two netgraph nodes.  Tee nodes have four hooks, right, left, right2left, and left2right.  All data received on right is sent unmodified to
     both hooks left and right2left.  Similarly, all data received on left is sent unmodified to both right and left2right.

     Packets may also be received on right2left and left2right; if so, they are forwarded unchanged out hooks right and left, respectively.

HOOKS

     This node type supports the following hooks:

     right         The connection to the node on the right.

     left          The connection to the node on the left.

     right2left    Tap for right to left traffic.

     left2right    Tap for left to right traffic.

CONTROL MESSAGES

     This node type supports the generic control messages, plus the following.

     NGM_TEE_GET_STATS
          Get statistics, returned as a struct ng_tee_stats.

     NGM_TEE_CLR_STATS
          Clear statistics.

SHUTDOWN

     This node shuts down upon receipt of an NGM_SHUTDOWN control message, or when all hooks have been disconnected.  If both right and left hooks
     are present, node removes itself from the chain gently, connecting right and left together.

SEE ALSO

     tee(1), netgraph(4), ngctl(8)

HISTORY

     The ng_tee node type was implemented in FreeBSD 4.0.

AUTHORS

     Julian Elischer <julian@FreeBSD.org>

BSD                                                                May 28, 2004                                                                BSD
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