[oclug] Re: seti and crontab

[dlinford at vcn.bc.ca]

b stephen harding oclug at lists.oclug.on.ca 

> Also what does the "> /dev/null 2> /dev/null" portion of the command mean?

It means the same as "> /dev/null 2>&1"

Yours says redirect stdout to /dev/null (i.e., toss it), 
and redirect stderr to /dev/null. 

The normal way says redirect stdout to /dev/null, and 
redirect stderr to stdout (which goes to /dev/null). 
The ordering is important... 

darren