From a52ace36f006460f257753bb302ac67f4026522f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Schneider Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2021 06:43:39 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] WHATSNEW: Warn users about early messages on stderr --- WHATSNEW.txt | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index 9b072788ad1..c1117889983 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -100,7 +100,10 @@ Also several command line options have a smb.conf variable to control the default now. All tools are logging to stderr by default. You can use "--debug-stdout" to -change the behavior. +change the behavior. Logging to stderr is turned on really early for every +client and daemon so that we don't miss log messages. This means a if you want +to log to a log file you could still see error messages on stderr before logging +to a file is set up. ### Common parser: -- 2.31.1