[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#474021: Bug#474021: Bug#474021: ldap-utils: ldapsearch should send errors to stderr

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Wednesday, April 02, 2008 5:07 PM -0700 Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org> 
wrote:


>> It would be nice if something went to stderr in case stdout has been
>> redirected so an abnormal result was obvious.
>
> This is controlled by the -L flag.  -LLL will give you pure LDIF without
> any additional messages and is usually what you want for scripts.

And to be very clear, ldapsearch already sends its errors to stderr:

[quanah at freelancer ~]$ ldapsearch -x -h bogus -b "" 1>a 2>b
[quanah at freelancer ~]$ cat b
ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server (-1)
[quanah at freelancer ~]$ cat a
[quanah at freelancer ~]$


--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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