On Wednesday 06 Oct 2004 13:01, David B. Carter wrote: > I don't know if my subject line made any sense, but what I'm trying to do > is this: I recently switched from booting in runlevel 5 to runlevel 3. I'm > using Xtart to give me a choice of window managers. Since I started doing > that, I am noticing several errors and warnings fly by in text mode before > the screen switches into graphics mode and launches my window manager of > choice. When I log out of my window manager session, some of the info > (plus additional output generated during my session) is visible on the > screen, but much of it has already scrolled off the top. > > I want to know how I can capture all that info so that I can look at it > after my session is over. I tried using the "pause" key to pause before > the screen switches to graphics mode, but no dice. So, is there a way that > I can either page up and see the text mode output that has already > scrolled up or redirect the output to a file or something like that? > Hi, David. I think you will find that everything you want to see is already captured. Go to /var/log and examine the files there - though you will have to be root to read most of them. HTH
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