On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 19:42:57 -0700,
Jeffrey Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Okay, I got X11 installed, and xterm running. I typed in the xterm -l
> command and another xterm window opened.
>
> However, the man is massive, and when I went to look for logging, it
> didn't seem (or I couldn't find) how to name the file, or open it once
> the logging has occurred...
According to the man page (which certainly is intimidating the first few
hundred times you see it; many pagers and man page viewers have search
capabilities):
-l Turn logging on. Normally logging is not
supported, due to security concerns. Some ver-
sions of xterm may have logging enabled. The log-
file is written to the directory from which xterm
is invoked. The filename is generated, of the
form
XtermLog.XXXXXX
or
Xterm.log.hostname.yyyy.mm.dd.hh.mm.ss.XXXXXX
depending on how xterm was built.
Looks like "security concerns" win over logging. IIRC, too many
passwords and private directory listings end up in the log files, and
there might have been an issue where the log file can be hi-jacked in
its entirety regardless of its permissions. xterm is a very old
program, written back in the days when functioality was more important
than security.
Fink supports a handful of terminal programs (run "fink apropos term";
add "rxvt" to the list); perhaps one of them will do what you want.
A hint for the truly brave: I'm sure the logging code is in the xterm
source, it's just a matter of the right configuration to enable it....
HTH,
Dan
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