From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 8 02:45:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA01344 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 02:45:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA01337 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 02:45:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (mail.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.19]) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA01699; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 04:45:09 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 04:45:08 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Doug White cc: "Anthony E. Coley" , "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: saving screen output? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Anthony E. Coley wrote: > > > Can someone point me in the right direction to find out how to > > capture screen output, > > (error messages and such). I would like to be able to capture them > > so I can get help > > on some error messages that I periodically get. > > It's easy if you're using X Windows, but if you're using the console you > will want to set up moused to do X style copy-n-paste. You can do it with output redirection, such as (in tcsh): > & log.file But the easier way to do it is using script. You run script, and it starts up a shell, you do what you have to do, then exit the shell, and everything that you do and you see while in that shell get copied into the file typescript. Wow, that sounds complicated... Just try it, and it'll make sense. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message