chilcote/outset

Understanding the contents written to StandardErrorPath and StandardOutPath

marmalodak opened this issue · 1 comments

marmalodak commented

I use StandardOutPath and StandardErrorPath to record the progress of things that happen in /usr/local/outset/boot-once/ where I have files like:

1-do-a-thing.sh
2-do-another-thing.sh
3-do-a-third-thing.sh
...

Often the output of 2-do-another-thing.sh over-writes the output of 1-do-a-thing.sh. Sometimes only a few messages from the first script are scattered in the output log. I see similar behavior for the other items in boot-once, that is, the log contents seem to be written not sequentially.

  1. Is this just my problem? Is this expected behavior?
  2. How can I prevent this?
  3. Do the scripts in boot-once run in parallel? Can I force each to wait for the preceding one to finish?
marmalodak commented

This was a local problem of feet stepping on other feet.