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Kevin Anderson wrote:
| Does anyone have any suggestions?  I've seen a few people appending ">
| /dev/null 2>&1" but since I'm not too sure what this does, I'm wondering
| if it could be explained...

        That odd bit at the end takes any error messages ("2>"), and redirects
their output to the standard one ("&1"). Since you've already redirected
standard output to /dev/null, the net effect is to get rid of every
little bit of data printed out. For more info, read up here:

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/io-redirection.html

~ HJ Hornbeck

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