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From: mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: routing error messages on background tasks
Message-ID: <1991May12.234430.10037@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 12 May 91 23:44:30 GMT
References: <17109@chopin.udel.edu>
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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In <17109@chopin.udel.edu> jon@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.
-- 
-Gary Mills-         -Networking Group-          -U of M Computer Services-