On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 11:03:39PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: >If in the course of a debian install I need to execute a shell and logs are >being preserved, will what I type in the shell also be saved to one of the >log files?
Not by default, no. >I have a procedure to get a secure wifi login done after reboot and >post-install and this way I could send logs and it would be available >for others. The secure wifi connection happens with ifup with a >little help from wpa_passphrase and grep and ex. You could save the information in a clunky way by using "logger" on the command line, something like (untested!): # logger -t my-script "<commands>" # <commands> | logger -t my-script 2>&1 That way you'll have to issue each of your commands twice, first to log what you're sending and secondly to run it, with output redirected to logger. "logger" is a tool to put things in syslog. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Google-bait: http://www.debian.org/CD/free-linux-cd Debian does NOT ship free CDs. Please do NOT contact the mailing lists asking us to send them to you.