XP command prompt : redirect a file to STDOUT

Question

Hi !

I want to do the opposite of everybody ( laugh ) I start open-erp with a command line like :

C:\OpenERPAllInOne\Server>openerp-server.exe --log-file=outputfile

but the problem is that with Windows it only does output to a file.

Is there any way to redirect a file to the STDOUT. For example (it doesn't work but this is the way I see it working) :

C:\OpenERPAllInOne\Server>openerp-server.exe --log-file=STDOUT

and then see directly the output to the command line.

I can't make it work ! Any idea ?

Thanks,

Olivier

Answer 1

That would be a function of the openerp-server.exe program.

If it's default output is to a file, then there isn't anything you can do about that.

Answer 2

I'm not sure if it still works, try CON (hope it was that) as filename

Answer 3

I'm assuming that OpenERP uses getopt_long and confirms to GNU standards. If it does, then the following should work:

openerp-server --log-file=-

(a dash is usually used to represent STDOUT in GNU, Linux and UNIX programs.)

Answer 4

If you can't get the server to output to the standard output you could monitor the log file with [tail][1].

If you run:

tail -f c:\path\to\logfile.txt

in another window then you can see the contents of the file as they are written.

tail doesn't come with Windows as standard but you can download a free port of tail for Windows here.

Answer 5

for windows there is a configuration file for OpenERP Server, like openerp-server.conf in the directory where you have installed the Open ERP

like c:\Program Files\OpenERP Server\openerp-server.conf OR
C:\documents and settings\USER\OpenERP Server\oepenrp-server.conf

you need to edit that file and set the --log-file paramter to None or False, and probably you might also try out something like this

C:\OpenERPAllInOne\Server>openerp-server.exe --log-file=False

that should work, but not sure whether it will work or not.!!