Joseph Bishop jbishop@west.net asks:

I know this can be done; I can't find it in my notes. Does anyone know how to redirect console output to a file?

and Michel Geldenhuys michel.geldenhuys@danone.com replies < < You should use the /etc/syslog.conf : < By default you have < *.info /dev/console < *.info /etc/messages < With the first line, it stands that every message is displayed on the < console. < So you can set up syslog.conf to have any kind of info redirected to a < file.

This only copes with syslog'd messages to the console: sometimes one wants to have a copy of the output of commands entered at the console logged to a file. /etc/log/auditlog is useful for that purpose (set "options auditlog.enable on" if it isn't already), although the rules for when things get included in it sometimes seem a bit hit and miss.

For example, I could do without a complete copy of the output generated by "rsh [filer] quota report" appearing there (it's rather a lot in our configuration), while it would be useful if the output generated by "ndmpcopy" run for the console was copied there (it isn't).

Chris Thompson Email: cet1@cam.ac.uk