[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] Sometimes it may already be helpful to capture a translator's `stdout` and `stderr`, for example like this: $ sudo settrans -fgap ↩ /servers/socket/2 ↩ /bin/sh -c '/hurd/pfinet -i eth0 -a [...] > /tmp/stdout 2> /tmp/stderr' $ [...] $ cat /tmp/stdout NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 65536 bhash 65536) $ cat /tmp/stderr pfinet: ../../hurd.work/pfinet/ethernet.c:196: ethernet_xmit: Unexpected error: (os/device) invalid IO size. (Trying to run [[GDB]] in this case was of no help -- due to a bug in GDB (supposedly) it wouldn't catch the fault.) Be made aware that both `stdout` and `stderr` will be block bufferend and no longer line buffered when doing such a redirection, so you'll have to arrange for appropriate `fflush`es on these, or force them to be line buffered again using the appropriate glibc magic (`setvbuf`). Otherwise you'll see text in the output files only if either glibc herself decides to flush (after some KiB of text) the after translator exits.