As a follow-up, when I call crond with the -L parameter the output is redirected to the log file. It looks like the default settings (going to syslog) output to stdout no matter what.
Dave On 1/7/16, David Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > Good afternoon busyboxers! I have been working with this software on > one of my own projects and during the boot cycle I'm calling the crond > applet to start. As a means of keeping the output clean for the user, > I've tried calling the binary as so: > > /usr/sbin/crond >/dev/null 2>/dev/null > > but no matter what, I get the following output: > > crond[140]: crond (busybox 1.23.1) started, log level 8 > > How or why does busybox output in a way that can't be redirected? > > Thanks, > Dave > _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
