service(8) output inconsistent to stdout/stderr

[Daniel Carosone]

service --status-all reports some service status lines on stdout, others on stderr.

noticable and problematic especially when piping to less/grep/etc.

presumably this is because it's calling multiple individual scripts each generating their own output to inconsistent destinations. Maybe there's some standard that says what these should do, and lots of bugs should be filed against each of the non-compliant ones?

workaround is to remember to 2>&1, but that is dumb; if the scripts can't be made consistent then perhaps service(8) can at least do this redirect internally?

12.04 current dist-upgrade as of today

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[Dan (dgar)]

This bug grates me. All command line tools that output thier main content to stderr irritates me This is most certainly a bug.