Hi all, I have in my crontab several chained commands similiar to this: 3 18 * * * mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc3 /mnt/linuxbackup/ && tar - cvpPf /mnt/linuxbackup/linuxbackup.tar /home/user/some_directory/ > /dev/null 2>&1 && umount /mnt/linuxbackup/ && DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/ X11R6/bin/xmessage Gratulation!! Daily backup succeeded \:\) .. /mnt/backup/ successfully unmounted.
The commands really do exactly what I whant, but there's this little part: '> /dev/null 2>&1' that I have a very foggy comprehension on: I know that this part saves me a root message that could be nearly as fat as 1.5 MB if it was sent to me. But could someone explain in human understandable words, what this part exactly means? Thanks in anticipation Regards Wolfgang ===== -- Tom Waits going Casablanca with Alice :) .. : 2 new Waits songs (mp3): http://www.anti.com/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
