routing error messages on background tasks

[Gary Mills]

In <17109 at chopin.udel.edu> jon at chopin.udel.edu (Jon Deutsch) writes:

>an error message is generated, it shows up on all tty's

>I've tried executing the program with a redirection to a file
>and /dev/null with no success.  (ie: prog > /dev/null&)

>Any suggestions?

Yes, you could try redirecting standard error as well.
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-Gary Mills-         -Networking Group-          -U of M Computer Services-