Where goes the console output of X programs?
Carlos Rodrigues
carlos.efr at mail.telepac.pt
Fri Oct 1 20:39:31 UTC 2004
Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:51:27PM +0100, Carlos Rodrigues wrote:
>
>
>>Where does the output that X programs dump in the console? I do not have
>>an .xsession-errors file or anything...
>
>
> It can be different for each process.
>
> Look at /proc/NNNN for the process of interest.
>
> Since the first three file are standard in (0), out (1), err (2)
>
> $ ls -l /proc/26670/fd
> total 8
> lr-x------ 1 mitch mitch 64 Sep 30 16:36 0 -> /dev/null
> l-wx------ 1 mitch mitch 64 Sep 30 16:36 1 -> pipe:[14054]
> l-wx------ 1 mitch mitch 64 Sep 30 16:36 2 -> pipe:[14054]
> lrwx------ 1 mitch mitch 64 Sep 30 16:36 3 -> socket:[203653]
>
> So in this case the out and err are tossed into a FIFO
> that is not inspected. Use "lsof" to see what plays with the pipe...
Well, I was hoping of a more general solution, like having a log of
everything that any X client dumps to the console on a given session (a
/var/log/messages alike for X).
If X crashes I just can't go out and grab some client's console... (I
don't even know the culprit then).
Carlos Rodrigues
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