Re: Capturing output from scripts in rc3.d

you could add - probably to the top of /etc/init.d/rc or at the top of
your startup script or both...

#!/bin/sh # or whatever your shell is...
exec > log.txt
exec 2>&1
set -x

Regards
Ted Fiedler

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