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Rev

Thank you. I simply did su -c "cat /dev/vcs1" and it worked. ANd like you mentioned, it was a simple snapshot of the messages on the console but that was all i needed.

Jay
– Jay

2010-10-14 20:49:00 +00:00
Commented Oct 14, 2010 at 20:49
@Jay: now that I've seen your comments, I have a different answer, which is that you should use redirection in your X startup scripts. I'm leaving the other possibilities because they may be useful to other people browsing the question archive.

Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
– Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'

2010-10-14 21:19:07 +00:00
Commented Oct 14, 2010 at 21:19

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