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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 10:57:50 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: sporkl@dti.net
Cc: freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: X
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On Thu, Oct 30, 1997 at 07:14:23PM +0000, sporkl wrote:
> Sorry, left something out.
>
> 	"startx >>startx.log 2>>startx.log" resulted in "Ambiguous output
> redirect". So, I tried "startx >startx.log" which resulted in an empty log
> file. I am using tcsh, which may explain this.

Yes, it would do.  Did X come up?  What messages did you see when you
went back to text mode?

For tcsh, write:

  % startx >& startx.log

Greg