Almost. What you are using will catch outout to stdout [standard output,
file descriptor 1]. You also want to catch output to stderr [standard error,
file desscritor 2]. To do that, extend what you tried as follows:

you wrote:
         startx >oops

you want:
        startx >oops 2>&1


At 09:58 AM 12/3/00 +0100, David Huybregts wrote [in part]:

>Because I would like to catch the error-messages in a file for a closer
>look, I would like to ask you how to redirect the output to a file.
>
>I thought is went something like this:
>
>startx >oops
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