Quoting Andrew McGlashan (andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au): > > > On 1/09/2015 11:08 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > >> > west!david 12:22:14 ~ $ diff -U0 VC-login-*[ey] > >> > --- VC-login-jessie 2015-08-31 11:34:23.476573261 -0500 > >> > +++ VC-login-wheezy 2015-08-31 11:38:11.000000000 -0500 > > How did you get these files? I haven't been able to come up with a way > > to get a dump of the exact text that is on a console, short of manually > > typing it into an editor (probably on another computer, for > > convenience's sake). Parts of it are logged, but not as far as I can > > tell into a single file, and I would actively expect that the text I'm > > objecting to would get logged separately (if at all) in any case. > > conspy perhaps ?
That is a very neat tool that I hadn't come across. It works over ssh, and cut-and-paste works well. Presumably you can avoid c&p by running it inside a script command. But the limitation that affects me*, compared with using gpm to c&p from the original console, is that you can't run it until you can access the computer remotely, by which time some information that I would want to capture has scrolled off the screen out of conspy's grasp. *My use case is normally capturing messages produced at boot up, most of which have scrolled off the screen by the time you want to capture them. This is why I posted https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/09/msg00038.html Cheers, David.