[ubuntu-uk] Redirecting output from command executed by start-stop-daemon?

[David Marsh]

I have a program which I want to start automatically every time the
computer boots up, and I'd like to redirect the output of that command
to a logfile.

So, in the crontab for the appropriate user, I have the following:

@reboot         /sbin/start-stop-daemon --start --chdir /home/boinc/boinc 
--background --exec /home/boinc/boinc/boinc>/home/boinc/log/boinc.log


The program which I want to run is boinc, and I'd like to redirect
boinc's output into a file so that I can keep tabs on its progress while
it chunters away in the background.

However, the above doesn't work.
Sure, boinc runs, but its output doesn't seem to go anywhere.

In fact, I have a sneaking suspicion that it's not boinc's output that's
being redirected, but that of start-stop-daemon (which doesn't
ordinarily produce any output as far as I'm aware).

I've tried wrapping the  /home/boinc....boinc.log  in "s and 's but this
just seems to result in the command not being run at all.


Does anybody know how I can get boinc's output to be redirected?


Thanks,


David.

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