Where goes the console output of X programs?

[Nifty Hat Mitch]

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...



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