Re: X Trials and Tribulations was (missing library for X)

[Paul Slootman <paul@wau.mis.ah.nl>]

On Mon 11 Jan 1999, Christopher C Chimelis wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Jeff Katcher wrote:
> 
> > I want to redirect the output of startx to a file so that i can see 
> > what might be the problem further up in the init, but startx >~/X.txt
> > gives me a blank file.  I saw a way to do this earlier on the
> > debian-user
> > list, but forgot to save it.
> 
> Try startx 2>&1 > ~/X.txt

Make that   startx > ~/X.txt 2>&1   as the other example first sends
stderr to the same fd as stdout, then changes the stdout fd, leaving
the stderr fd pointing to the OLD stdout fd.


Paul Slootman
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