>> "JE" == Jesse Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JE> How can I capture these messages into a file so that I
JE> may be able to see what's going on? I've tried looking in /var/log
JE> to see if anythere seems related, but haven't found anything.
JE> I think what I want to do is redirect stderr into a file, but
JE> I'm new to linux and don't know how to make that happen.
STDERR ist the second channel (don't know if this is the correct
word). so you do
startx 2> /tmp/startx.errors
Or to capture both STDOUT and STDERR, do
startx > /tmp/startx.errors 2>&1
This will redirect STDOUT and also redirect STDERR into STDOUT
(the first channel).
Ciao,
Martin
