[TriLUG] A question about system error messages--how do you capture them??

[Jon Carnes]

> And although I'm not having this problem, I would like to know how to
> capture error messages from a Linux system?? I'm assuming that there is a
> simple command to direct these messages to a text file.
>
If you are talking about errors from running a program or script... run the 
program/script and use a redirect to a text file.  The proper redirect for 
errors/warnings is 2>

  myscript  2>  myfilename.txt

Jon