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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
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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/

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