Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 17:33:28 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: Bob Giesen <BobGiesen@earthlink.net> Cc: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Cannot change X screen resolution [tcsh?] Message-ID: <20020306173122.G97469-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <E16i8FN-0005yK-00@albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net>
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Isn't this discussion about 2> and &1 etc. shell-dependent (tcsh)?
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On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Bob Giesen wrote:
> > > Capture the output of the X startup and check the messages.
> > I tried
> > # startx 2 > & 1 > /var/tmp/startuplog
> > and get
> > Ambiguous output redirect.
> It's ambiguous because of the space you have after the ampersand
> ("&"). The shell is trying to run the command "startx 2 >" in the
> background. (It is ambiguous in that you're beginning to redirect
> the stderr output without telling the shell where you want it to
> go...) You must not have a space between the ampersand and the "1."
> Still, this command will not log error output. See my earlier
> message for details.
> Bob
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