Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no> wrote: > > You mean 2>&1 >/dev/null, surely? That would only redirect stdout to /dev/null, while stderr is redirected to the old stdout. What you want is > /dev/null 2>&1 -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt