First contact with faimond / faimond-gui

[Thomas Neumann]

hiya

>> 4)
>> faimond-gui doesn't work (for me). I wrote a small init-script which
>> runs faimond as a background process.

> This is not the indented use, normally it should be called like
> described in the man page.

Sorry, I was imprecise. I meant daemon.

man faimond
[...]
OPTIONS
[...]
       -d     Daemon mode.

>> When installing a server some progress
>> information gets written to /var/log/faimond.log. But when I execute
>>   faimond-gui /var/log/faimond.log
>> then nothing happens at all.

> In the enterprise edition of FAI you can do:
> tail -f /var/log/faimond.log | faimond-gui -

I tried this with cat instead of tail. I can understand this being an
advanced feature - but it would be nice if the basic edition would at
least tell me something along the lines of "Please insert coin to
continue."

tschüß
thomas