From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 12 7:28:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post-20.mail.nl.demon.net (post-20.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3DFE37B496 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 07:18:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-20.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #2) id 16kng7-000BDe-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:55:03 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 6521813040 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:55:02 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id EB88D22597; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:55:02 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:55:02 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Annoying startup output Message-ID: <20020312145502.GF1577@raggedclown.net> References: <20020311161614.0a34fdba.johann@broadpark.no> <20020311173853.GB721@hades.hell.gr> <20020312075746.286c7bcc.johann@broadpark.no> <20020312140244.GA955@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020312140244.GA955@hades.hell.gr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message