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  Jason

Quote:> How does one trap the output from xdm or kdm or startx or startkde?
It is
> failing for some reason and without documentation, I am a loss to
figure out
> why.  Thanks much.

>   Jason

Quote:> How does one trap the output from xdm or kdm or startx or startkde?
It is
> failing for some reason and without documentation, I am a loss to
figure out
> why.  Thanks much.

$ startx 2>&1 > logfile

That should write all STDOUT (2) and STDERR (1) msgs to the logfile.

HTH
Bluster

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# redirect errors to a file in user's home directory if we can
for errfile in "$HOME/.xsession-errors" "${TMPDIR-/tmp}/xses-$USER"
"/tmp/xses-$USER"
do
    if ( cp /dev/null "$errfile" 2> /dev/null )
    then
        chmod 600 "$errfile"
        exec > "$errfile" 2>&1
        break
    fi
done

This would normally redirect the KDE start up messages to
"$HOME/.xsession-errors".

If you don't have it, you could add something like:

echo  >  ~/.xsession-errors
exec  >  ~/.xsession-errors  2>&1

Then you also need to be sure that kdm or xdm is being executed.

The last line of "inittab" passes control to something -- probably a script --
to start the process.

You can change this to:

x:5:once:/usr/bin/kdm

{where the number and the path might be different on your system}

and see if that fixes it.

JRT

should read

$ startx > logfile 2>&1

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