Wow! Thanks! That was a wonderful and very clear explanation.
- Paul Rodriguez
On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 14:04, (null) wrote:
> On 05 Mar 2002 00:37:03 -0500
> Paul Rodr$ByH(Buez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> revealed these words to me:
>
> > Thanks, Onur, but that didn't work either. New command I tried was:
> >
> > cd /home/paul/.seti ; sudo -u paul ./setistack > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
> >
> > It just sort of waits during boot at the part that says "starting
> > linuxconf hooks", as when I tried "su -c". Also, having adapted the
> > above command from the seti client readme, what's the "2> /dev/null" do
> > that "> /dev/null" doesn't?
> >
> > - Paul Rodriguez
> >
>
> any program has 3 standard streams namely stdin, stdout, and stderr. they are
>numbered 0, 1, and 2 respectively (called file descriptors). stdin is usually binded
>to the keyboard while stdout and stderr are binded to the display. redirecting
>without any file descriptors (i.e "> /dev/null") means you are redirecting the output
>(stdout) and has the same effect as "1> /dev/null". Redirecting the stderr ("2>
>/dev/null") to /dev/null means you are discarding the message but the normal messages
>still get shown on the screen.
>
> stdin is the reverse of stdout. redirecting the stdin means that you are getting the
>input from a file or a stream not connected to the keyboard. a simple example of this
>is more < [filename] which feeds the contents of the filename to the more utility.
>
> hope this helps.
>
> (im having trouble with sending to the list. so im replying to the sender and just
>cc'ing the list. pardon for the duplicate if the mail addressed to the list pushes
>through.)
>
> ciao!
>
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