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On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 08:25:09AM -0500, George Georgalis wrote:
> I've got some proc log I'd like to clear from the runsvdir entry in ps.
> With readproctitle, I'd make a service and run "once"
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> yes '' | head -4000 | tr '\n' .
> 
> But that is not working under runsvdir. How should I go about
> clearing the dots?  Also, any suggestions on adding the service

runsvdir only writes stderr to the readproctitle log, not stdout.
Adding `exec 1>&2` to the run script should help.

> which is barfing to the log, and making each entry longer?

I'm not sure I completely understand what you mean, any examples?

Regards, Gerrit.