On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Jesse Evans wrote: > Folks, > > Thanks for the tips, but so far still no joy. > > Regarding posting all the messages, I can't even read them all. > As the messages start to scroll up, the display blinks (trying to go into > graphics mode, I suspect,) then comes back to text. > Most of the (**) messages run past during this blank-out time. > > How can I capture these messages into a file so that I > may be able to see what's going on? I've tried looking in /var/log > to see if anythere seems related, but haven't found anything. > I think what I want to do is redirect stderr into a file, but > I'm new to linux and don't know how to make that happen.
Using xinit, they should be in $HOME/.xsession-errors. if you use XDM, they get stored in /var/log/xdm-errors HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
