This is tricky because the shutdown pulls down all the resources you'd use
to save your log.  If the redirect does what you want, then cool.  In the
past I've had to hook up serial consoles to capture everything without disk
or network being up.


On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

> there is a guy who wants to look at the shutdown text. Would a way to do
> it be to open a terminal and type:
>
> sudo shutdown > filename
>
> wait.... you would need to do this from a tty, wouldn't you?
> I also forgot the 2>&1
>  So you would go into a tty and type:
>
> sudo shutdown > filename 2>&1
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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