Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:02:44 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "J.S." <johann@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Annoying startup output Message-ID: <20020312140244.GA955@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20020312075746.286c7bcc.johann@broadpark.no> References: <20020311161614.0a34fdba.johann@broadpark.no> <20020311173853.GB721@hades.hell.gr> <20020312075746.286c7bcc.johann@broadpark.no>
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On 2002-03-12 07:57, J.S. wrote: > That's what I find odd as well. But note these are system console messages. > > Does that too get redirected? > > start) > /usr/bin/su -l ftpd -c '/home/ftpd/openftpd/sbin/ftpd -q' > /dev/null & You have redirected standard output only, which means that stderr will still be sent to the terminal. Try something like: command >/dev/null 2>&1 Many programs send their messages to standard error, which is a different stream from stdout and does not get redirected by a plain > redirection. Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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