Hi, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > Why is the "2>&1" part needed? Wouldn't stderr go to the terminal by > default.
Goal is to redirect both to /dev/null. So these would do: bin/mailwatcher 2>/dev/null >/dev/null & bin/mailwatcher >/dev/null 2>&1 & But as Michael Milliman pointed out, bin/mailwatcher 2>&1 >/dev/null & redirects only stdout to /dev/null and leaves stderr directed to where stdout was pointing before. Have a nice day :) Thomas
