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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting /dev/null Post 302207616 by Dave Miller on Friday 20th of June 2008 11:35:00 AM
Old 06-20-2008
Sendmail not running? Good question. I would assume it gets queued until sendmail is running again, but isn't queing it a function of sendmail? Bottom line: I don't have an answer.

Good practice? Personally, I'd say no. You may want to divert the STANDARD output to /dev/null but errors too? That really depends upon the application.
 

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SOLARPOWERLOG(1)														  SOLARPOWERLOG(1)

NAME
solarpowerlog - queries data from a photovoltaic inverter SYNOPSIS
solarpowerlog [options] DESCRIPTION
The program trackd and logd data from photovoltaic inverters, collect power data and store them. OPTIONS
The program follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. -h, --help Show summary of options. -v, --version Show version of program. -b, --background Runs the program in the background, detaching it from the console. -c, --conf filename The configuration to be used. Default is solarpowerlog.conf, looked for in the current directory. --dumpcfg Dump configuration structure, then exit --chdir arg working directory for daemon (only used when running as a daemon). Defaults to / --stdout arg redirect stdout to this file (only used when running as a daemon). Defaults to /dev/null --stderr arg redirect stderr to this file (only used when running as a daemon). Defaults to /dev/null --pidfile arg create a pidfile after the daemon has been started. (only used when running as a daemon). Default: no pid file SEE ALSO
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/solarpowerlog/index.php June 16, 2009 SOLARPOWERLOG(1)
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