From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: change in wget logfile behavior
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 02:24:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e2015ee2-2c56-46d8-d6d9-fe8a8098408e@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ujnodc5lil2atrkom7rssbcpis3e9m8grj@4ax.com>
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On 03/29/2017 08:30 PM, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> Recently, I guess since wget was upgraded to 1.19, whenever I run wget I get a
> bonus message on the console:
>
> Redirecting output to ‘wget-log’.
>
> And sure enough, wget creates the file ~/wget-log, which is usually empty.
>
> This behavior is annoying, and new. It can be worked around by putting
>
> logfile = /dev/stderr
>
> in /etc/wgetrc.
>
> Eric, I guess you're aware of this change. Would you consider putting the above
> into the default /etc/wgetrc, so people don't have to make the chnage separately
> on all of their hosts?
I'll investigate to see whether this was an intentional upstream change,
and whether other distros are doing anything about it. Thanks for the
heads up.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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