Re: Redirecting error messages to an aterm
Aidan Kehoe (kehoea@parhasard.net)
Tue, 6 Feb 2001 08:34:53 +0100
On February 5, quintaq@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> On 5 Feb 2001, at 13:41, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
>
> > $ cd
> > $ grep -n afterstep ./.[xX]*
> > .xinitrc:16:exec afterstep
> >
> > Then edit the file (.xinitrc in this case, but that may vary) to
> > change the `exec afterstep' line to
> >
> > exec afterstep > ${HOME}/.startx-errors 2>&1
> >
> Hi Aidan,
>
> Thank you very much. I did as you suggested and I can now use
> "tail -f " to view growing messages file in an aterm.
>
> Because I am keen to learn, I have read up on the syntax you
> suggested, and I understand most of it. I am, however, curious
> about the ".xinitrc:16:exec afterstep" part, which chokes at the
> "16" stage on my system. Am I doing something wrong ?
No, not at all. This is more a question of shell syntax than Afterstep
configuration; the 'grep' line was there to work out which file you
were running Afterstep from, and the '.xinitrc:16:exec afterstep' was
just some sample output from that grep command. It could equally have
been '.Xclients:4:afterstep &' or myriad variations on the same -- X
being infinitely configurable is annoying at times. As long as you're
editing the right file, there's nothing wrong.
Cheers,
- Aidan
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