Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:55:02 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Annoying startup output Message-ID: <20020312145502.GF1577@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <20020312140244.GA955@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020311161614.0a34fdba.johann@broadpark.no> <20020311173853.GB721@hades.hell.gr> <20020312075746.286c7bcc.johann@broadpark.no> <20020312140244.GA955@hades.hell.gr>
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On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 04:02:44PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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. > You could always implement a prettifying system like some versions of Linux use :). You might have to climb a few mountains to get it put in place though... Or just do not look at it..you can always check with "dmesg" afterwards to see if something went wrong. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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