How to capture/record virtual console output?

[Mike]

Kent Stewart wrote:

> On Friday 16 April 2004 11:54 am, Mike wrote:
> 
>>Greetings:
>>
>>System: FreeBSD 4.9-stable
>>
>>KDE (3.14) is crashing on me and I need to capture the error messages
>>(so that I can submit my problem to the this mailing list).
>>
>>I'm logged in as root. And I'm in tty0.  KDE crashes (core dump) and
>>produces several error messages along with mention of the file
>>"/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
>>
>>I checked the contents of "/var/log/XFree86.0.log" and it does not
>>contain the error messages produced by the crashing KDE.
> 
> 
> Have you tried something like
> startx >& kde.log

Kent,

Thanks. That worked perfectly.  I was thrashing around trying to use 
"tail" without much success.

So now I have the error messages.  On the next problem...

Mike
> 
> I don't start up in kde but at the cli and use startx to fire off kde.
> 
Yes, I should have mentioned that. I use startx too to start kde.

> I suspect that you did a partial update of some of the recent library 
> changes. Something is linking to a new library but has the old 
> structures.
> 
> Kent
> 
> 
>>So I need to find a way grab or capture the text output generated
>>from the crash.
>>
>>I've tried opening pico in tty1 and using the mouse in tty0 to
>>highlight (and place in the buffer?) the error messages on tty0.  No
>>go. It's either that the buffer gets cleared when switching between
>>tty0 and tty1 or that highlighting the text via mouse isn't working.
>>
>>I've gone through 2-years worth of FreeBSD mailing list messages but
>>I can't seem to come up with solution.
>>
>>Hints?  Thank you.
>>
>>Michael Chinn
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