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[Nick Levinson]

How do I find messages in Terminal after it has quit?

I run a program of some kind. It invokes a terminal. In one case, it displayed a paragraph of text and, in less than a second, exited. I open a terminal and try to scroll up or go through the history of previously-typed commands but I can't find the disappeared text. I'm running Gnome desktop environment 2.24.1 in Fedora 10 Linux.

What should I type?

Thank you.

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Nick

[Sargek]

[Nick Levinson]

Question is for any application. I think I ran a Perl program; I don't remember exactly whether it was one I downloaded from outside the distro or a short one I wrote to see if I could write a Perl program (I have a project underway that requires that I create a Perl program). Perl itself is part of the distro.

Are there at least a few standard locations for old post-exit Terminal logs in Fedora 10 with Gnome?

Thanks.

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Nick

[Sargek]

[Nick Levinson]

For Perl apps, I suppose I can write a line in an app to send stdout to a file, and that's a partial solution.

But it sounds like I need a multiapplication solution. Is it possible to permanently save stdout (or stderr, for that matter) to a log regardless of app? I can delete old logs now and then, but meanwhile I can see what's in the current log from a recent event.

Thanks for the help so far. Now I know I can stop looking for what's gone.