I'm sure this is a silly question
Kostas Sfakiotakis
kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr
Thu Apr 7 21:51:58 UTC 2005
Greetings ,
Rick Stevens wrote:
< snip >
>>
>> Put an ampersand after your command to run it in the background. For
>> example, you can type this in console:
>>
>> gedit &
>>
>> Now if you close the console, gedit will still be running.
>
>
> Better yet:
>
> gedit >/dev/null 2>&1 &
>
> (redirect both stdout and stderr to /dev/null and run program in
> background).
Rick, by sending both stdout and stderr to /dev/null wouldn't you
prevent gedit ( or whatever the application is ) from printing an error
message should an error condition, or even an application crash occur ?
Kind Regards,
Kostas
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