04-29-2003
/dev/null 2>&1 question
Hi,
suppose you have the following line at your crontab :
5 * * * * /usr/mine/script > /dev/null 2>&1
now i understood that the " > /dev/null 2>&1 outputs both Standard outpout and Standard Error messages to the /dev/null device or file...
the first part , " > /dev/null " transfers the stdout messages to the /dev/null, but i am missing the part where the stderr is also dumped at dev/null.....
2(is stderr) >(send) &1 (stdout)...
i am not understanding how you send stdout first to dev/null and then send stderr to stdout which in turn will be sent to dev/null too ???
Thanks.
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
dev
dev(7FS) File Systems dev(7FS)
NAME
dev - Device name file system
DESCRIPTION
The dev filesystem manages the name spaces of devices under the Solaris operating environment. The global zone's instance of the dev
filesystem is mounted during boot on /dev.
A subdirectory under /dev may have unique operational semantics. Most of the common device names under /dev are created automatically by
devfsadm(1M). Others, such as /dev/pts, are dynamic and reflect the operational state of the system. You can manually generate device
names for newly attached hardware by invoking devfsadm(1M) or implicitly, by indirectly causing a lookup or readdir operation in the
filesystem to occur. For example, you can discover a disk that was attached when the system was powered down (and generate a name for that
device) by invoking format(1M)).
FILES
/dev Mount point for the /dev filesystem in the global zone.
SEE ALSO
devfsadm(1M), format(1M), devfs(7FS)
NOTES
The global /dev instance cannot be unmounted.
SunOS 5.11 9 June 2006 dev(7FS)