From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 18:20:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wilsonandhorton.co.nz (fw2.wilsonandhorton.co.nz [203.99.66.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E292D37BD46 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 18:20:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by wilsonandhorton.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA07185; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 13:18:40 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 13:18:39 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: j mckitrick Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: logginf init and X output Message-ID: <20000811131839.A6778@jonc.ntdns.wilsonandhorton.co.n> References: <20000811015034.A8699@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20000811015034.A8699@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 01:50:34AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 01:50:34AM +0100, j mckitrick wrote: > > I know that dmesg shows the kernel output during bootup, but as the init > messages fly by, the are getting lost, especially when the console clears > after changing a font or size. Also, i would like to see all the output > from X as it starts, so that i can whittle down my Xfree86 config and also > maybe catch a few mis-configs that might be slowing it down. This output > also scrolls away quickly. I tried redirecting to a file, but that doesn't > seem to work: > > startx > file.out If you're using [t]csh: startx >& file.out If you're using [ba]sh: startx > file.out 2>&1 -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message