On Tuesday 07 August 2001 03:30, Bill Hartwell wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 August 2001 00:33, Arend Meetsma wrote:
> > On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Bill Hartwell wrote:
> > > I'm using Redhat 7.1, with KDE 2.1.1/2.1.2 as my desktop. In
> > > order to log my xwindows messages so that I can report errors
> > > when they occur, I'm using a script to start my xwindows.
> > >
> > > The command was given to me by a KDE support guy as follows:
> > >
> > > startx 2&>1 | tee xwinlog
> > >
> > > The problem with this is that it creates the xwinlog file, but
> > > puts nothing into it. How do I change the script so that the
> > > messages actually get logged into a log file?
> >
> > Hi Bill,
> >
> > I believe you need to redirect sterr to your logfile too. Check and
> > see if this file exists for you:
> >
> > [root@NIS-968414 log]# cat /var/log/XFree86.0.log
>
> Thanks. I checked and don't have a file like that. Any ideas where to
> pursue from there? Not sure if this makes a difference in what I
> should look for, but I am running Bastille on my system.
Only XFree86 4.x.x writes that log file. If you are using a 3.3.6 X
server (/etc/X11/X is linked to something other than XFree86), that log
file will not get written.
I thought the redirection should be "startx 2>&1 |tee xwinlog", not
what you have above.
Chris
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