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author | Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu@apple.com> | 2011-05-12 15:45:29 -0700 |
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committer | Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu@apple.com> | 2011-05-12 19:28:32 -0700 |
commit | 5bc05d96f883add324bab338ffb9b9409cf45b2c (patch) | |
tree | e02d8fc3fe8e501a9d5f15b62f3c252126614bf4 /hw/xquartz/man | |
parent | c18b7165f971cbf6b634ccf670eb4aa9840eb9e4 (diff) |
XQuartz: Add a LOGGING section to our man page
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu@apple.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'hw/xquartz/man')
-rw-r--r-- | hw/xquartz/man/Xquartz.man | 25 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/hw/xquartz/man/Xquartz.man b/hw/xquartz/man/Xquartz.man index ad5ce2884..19e8efbad 100644 --- a/hw/xquartz/man/Xquartz.man +++ b/hw/xquartz/man/Xquartz.man @@ -102,9 +102,32 @@ Same as fake_button3 above. .TP 8 .B "\-depth \fIdepth\fP" Same as depth above. +.SH LOGGING +XQuartz stores a server log at ~/Library/Logs/X11.__bundle_id_prefix__.log which +is analogous to /var/log/Xorg.#.log on systems that use the XFree86 DDX such as +Linux, BSD, and Solaris. +.PP +In addition to this server log, XQuartz sends messages to syslogd(8) using +asl(3). These logs are sent to the __bundle_id_prefix__ facility, and you can +watch these logs using the following syslog(1) command: +.TP 8 +.B $ syslog -w -k Facility __bundle_id_prefix__ +.PP +By default, XQaurtz sets an ASL mask which prevents it from logging messages +below the ASL_LEVEL_WARNING level (meaning almost all logging is done strictly +to the file referenced above). To force XQuartz to send all log messages to +syslogd(8), you can adjust this mask using the following syslog(1) command: +.TP 8 +.B $ syslog -c X11.bin -d +.PP +The stdout and stderr messages printed by any process launched by XQuartz will +be redirected to this syslog facility with a priority level of ASL_LEVEL_INFO +and ASL_LEVEL_NOTICE respectively. In order to see these messages in syslog, +you will need to adjust XQuartz's asl mask as above but using -i or -n +instead of -d. .SH "SEE ALSO" .PP -X(__miscmansuffix__), Xserver(1), xdm(1), xinit(1) +X(__miscmansuffix__), Xserver(1), xdm(1), xinit(1), syslog(1), syslogd(8) .PP http://xquartz.macosforge.org .PP |