SOLVED - Re: why does X keep throwing messages on console?
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:13:44AM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Sandip P Deshmukh said:
> > hello all
> >
> > when i run X from a console using a simple startx command, off and on,
> > i keep getting a line that says
> >
> > 'getmodeline etc etc' on the console from where i fired X.
> >
> > is there a way to avoid this?
>
> It's just STDOUT and STDERR being displayed there, and it gets logged
> for you anyway. So if you find it irritating, just redirect it to
> /dev/null (startx > /dev/null 2>&1)
thanx. this seems to be working
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regards,
sandip p deshmukh
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