Re: [opensuse] Why can't i login to Desktop as root?[changes to: How to get tty stdout to a file?]

Patrick Shanahan said the following on 11/18/2012 11:29 AM:

* Oddball [11-18-12 11:04]:

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Op 18-11-12 15:51, Anton Aylward schreef:

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If you're using a tty rather than an xterm then the obvious thing is to use 'script'. That copies everything that goes to the tty to a file.

Now do realise that a tty is a serial device. You are not getting a snapshot as you would if you were running a graphical console and using KSnapshot, you are getting a serial record of everything that was sent to the tty.

However it *does* redirect to the file in the manner you ask for.

Please do RTFM first. I/we take no responsibility for misuse.

Ah!, yes..., the manual, which one?

Possibly that would be for script as that is what the OP stated.

Possibly => probably => certainty. MAN pages are wonderful, even if it takes apropos to find them :-) Apropos is the google for man pages :-)

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Screendump has:

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And were did "screendump" come from? Not mentioned above!

Indeed. Quite irrelevant.

Yes, the computer *only* understand commands presented in the manner prescribed. If you fail to follow instructions, *you* fail!

I'm wondering here why oddball has so much trouble following instructions. Perhaps his problems expressing himself are a two-way thing. I recall a "Two Ronnies" sketch where someone was interviewed though a number of translators (which I can't find on Youtube) or this http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OCbvCRkl_4U#! Its clear that Oddball is not listening to us; what he's hearing has "obviously" gone tough three or four layers of translation and transliteration, each of which is less accurate than google and more perfidious than babelfish. And what we hear him say has, likewise, gone though those same language filters, which is why what he hearing back has nothing to do with what we think we are telling him. I mean, can you honestly think of any other explanation?

script is your simplest solution if you use it correctly and correctly is the prescribed manner, not anyway you choose.

Script works for you and me, Patrick. I bet it would work for Oddball as well if it wasn't for this 'layers of translation' problem. I mean, what kind of system do you get when you input 'script' and get out 'screendump', and where you suggest 'RTFM' and what come out obviously had nothing to do with anything sensible? Honestly, can you think of a simpler explanation? -- This message represents the official view of the voices in my head -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org