Hey Ben,

Glad to hear my instructions are *nearly* working out for you.

I’m more than happy to help muck around with things with you to get hostapd running as a service. I’m guessing that it’s probably something to do with the user you’re running the script as – have a play with things such as the command logger – like this:

whoami | logger -t YOURSCRIPTHERE

or like this:

logger -t YOURSCRIPTHERE `do_something_which_produces_logs`

Or, more likely to be useful

hostapd 2&>&1 | logger -t HOSTAPD

Now, you could also check the /etc/init.d/hostapd file (if that exists – I’m flying from memory here folks!) and perhaps wrapper the hostapd command with the logger program.

Logger just dumps stuff into your syslog – which usually ends up in /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog… so you can have a read back of that after the system has booted… Although, I should note, I had some pretty major issues with the Ethernet Over Power adaptors I was using, and, well, I’ve stopped doing this now as a result, but I’ll probably go back to it at some point.

All the best,

Jon