If you don't care about the output, this will just send everything to /dev/null. If you want to log it, change it to something like this:
$* > /dev/null 2>err.log 1>out.log & This directs stderr to err.log, stdout to out.log On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Andreas Sewe < s...@st.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote: > Kelly Davis wrote: > > Try changing the script to something like this: > > > > #! /bin/sh > > $* > /dev/null 2>&1 & > > exit 0 > > > > http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/06/06/what-does-devnull-21-mean/ > > Yes, that did the trick. Thank you very much. :-) > > Alas, I have no idea the redirections are required here. Can you > enlighten me? > > Best wishes, > > Andreas >