On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Jeff Katcher wrote: > I want to redirect the output of startx to a file so that i can see > what might be the problem further up in the init, but startx >~/X.txt > gives me a blank file. I saw a way to do this earlier on the > debian-user > list, but forgot to save it. Try startx 2>&1 > ~/X.txt That should direct stderr to the file as well. C