From: Alexander Kappner <alexander@kappner.info>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 11:10:28 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: logger: fix incorrect warning message when both --file and a message are specified
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2a31355b11c3714cac2b6b60565b639aa32388f1;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git

logger: fix incorrect warning message when both --file and a message are specified

Logger warns that when both --file and a message are given, the message is ignored.
It does the opposite. Fix the warning message to conform to the observed behavior.

Example:
echo "You will not see this file in the log" > file.txt
logger -f file.txt "You will see this message in the log"

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kappner <agk@godking.net>
---

diff --git a/misc-utils/logger.c b/misc-utils/logger.c
index 83b39542f..a674ef0cf 100644
--- a/misc-utils/logger.c
+++ b/misc-utils/logger.c
@@ -1296,7 +1296,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	argc -= optind;
 	argv += optind;
 	if (stdout_reopened && argc)
-		warnx(_("--file <file> and <message> are mutually exclusive, message is ignored"));
+		warnx(_("--file <file> and <message> are mutually exclusive; file is ignored"));
 #ifdef HAVE_LIBSYSTEMD
 	if (jfd) {
 		int ret = journald_entry(&ctl, jfd);