Capture standard error messages in log

[bharix]

Guys,
I am writing a ftp script. Sometimes it happens that my ftp
session times out showing error on the terminal.
"Connection timed out".

My problem is that I am not able to capture this error message in the log file.

Even though I use following construct, the (error) message
is not getting captured in log.

Could you please let me know how to capture this message
in log so that I can grep it and report error though my script?

ftp -ivn xxx.xxx.xxx.xx <! >> $LOG
user xyz xyzpass
cd DIR
mget *.txt
bye
!

TIA,
bharix.

 

[rneve]

This will redirect the erroroutput to the same logfile.

ftp -ivn xxx.xxx.xxx.xx <! >> $LOG 2>&1
user xyz xyzpass
cd DIR
mget *.txt
bye
!

Regards,
RN

 

[bharix]

Worked!
Thanks for the reply. Appreciate it.

Bharix.