Enable -L to work in foreground.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=2713

3 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d149749c..5f5773e8 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ package will have two security verifications instead of one...
 * Message-string macros eliminated from driver.c so gettext can see them.
 * Various useful to version reporting & configure.in fixes by Chip Salzenberg.
 * Bernhard Rosenkraenzer's fix for broken Kerberos V configuration.
+* Make --logfile work in foreground.
 
 fetchmail-5.2.3 (Tue Jan  4 01:56:11 EST 2000), 18421 lines:
 * Ken Estes's patch to check for unreachable UIDL file due to bad NFS mount.
diff --git a/driver.c b/driver.c
index 05d91b73..655bf4d3 100644
--- a/driver.c
+++ b/driver.c
@@ -1214,7 +1214,10 @@ static int readbody(int sock, struct query *ctl, flag forward, int len)
 		return(PS_IOERR);
 	    }
 	    else if (outlevel >= O_VERBOSE)
-		fputc('*', stderr);
+	    {
+		fputc('*', stdout);
+		fflush(stdout);
+	    }
 	}
     }
 
diff --git a/fetchmail.c b/fetchmail.c
index a758d5ac..d03a2b0e 100644
--- a/fetchmail.c
+++ b/fetchmail.c
@@ -553,6 +553,12 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	if (run.poll_interval && !getuid())
 	    signal(SIGHUP, SIG_IGN);
     }
+    else if (run.logfile)
+    {
+	freopen(run.logfile, "a", stdout);
+	freopen(run.logfile, "a", stderr);
+    }
+
 
 #ifdef linux
     interface_init();