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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions at reminder script Post 302560455 by Corona688 on Thursday 29th of September 2011 11:56:00 PM

09-30-2011

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It's write that's doing it, printing error messages that get logged. It wouldn't be sending two emails if write wasn't failing, after all.

Redirect it's output into /dev/null. write $LOGNAME < ~/Msgs/message.$$ > /dev/null 2> /dev/null ...

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sysmsg

sysmsg(7D)							      Devices								sysmsg(7D)

NAME

       sysmsg - system message routing to console devices

SYNOPSIS

       /dev/sysmsg

DESCRIPTION

       The  file  /dev/sysmsg routes output to a variable set of console devices.  Writes to /dev/sysmsg are always directed to the system console
       /dev/console, and are in addition directed to a set of auxiliary console devices managed by consadm(1m).

       Only root has permission to write to this device.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsr			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Stable			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       consadm(1m), syslogd(1M) , attributes(5), console(7D)

SunOS 5.11							    13 Oct 1998 							sysmsg(7D)