[Lxc-users] getting output from lxc-start?

[Trent W. Buck]

Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at free.fr> writes:

> On 02/01/2011 12:04 PM, Dean Mao wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been messing around with trying to get the output of lxc-start into a
>> file some.  I know that lxc-start produces a log file, as well as the
>> ability to fetch the dmesg file directly from the container's log file
>> directory, but I was curious if it was possible to just run lxc-start in a
>> nohup and use some kind of dummy getty instance to pipe the output into a
>> file.  The closest thing I could find was using screen's logging capability.
>>   The log file produced by lxc-start doesn't really resemble the output
>> generated from the container boot.  Is there dummy getty/terminal thing that
>> I could get the actual output of the container boot process?
>
> Ok, I just realize I forget to commit the patch to output the console to 
> a file :)

Uh, lxc-start -s lxc.console=/var/log/lxc/foo.console works for me, as
at 0.7.3.