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Re: using stdout with certtool
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Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos |
Subject: |
Re: using stdout with certtool |
Date: |
Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:48:07 +0100 |
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On 03/02/2011 03:08 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> hi folks--
>
> i know certtool has an --output option, but it's nice when tools work
> properly with stdout as well.
>
> i just tried to make a self-signed cert like this:
>
> certtool --bits 1024 -s > ca.pem
> certtool --load-privkey ca.pem -s > cacert.pem
>
> the series of prompts generated by the -s command came mostly to stderr,
> which is the right thing to happen. but a few of them went to stdout,
> which made the process fairly confusing.
>
> here are the prompts that went to stdout:
Thanks. It is now corrected. All interactive messages are sent to stderr.
regards,
Nikos