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You can attach to a running process with strace but you can't redirect stdout/stderr after a process has already started. If you would have been able to "play" with file descriptors that way then a lot of problems would have ensued where processes expect an fd to be connected to a terminal, file, socket or pipe and not have it changed halfway through to say the bitbucket.
Thanks for the link; I didn't think that it would be that involved...I seem to assume that with linux/unix there's always a command to do something...you just need to know what that command is.
But thanks for the info, I could write up a script to accomplish what I've asked. Not sure of the reliability or scalability but it's a start.
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