output

[David Henderson]

As a follow-up, when I call crond with the -L parameter the output is
redirected to the log file.  It looks like the default settings (going
to syslog) output to stdout no matter what.

Dave


On 1/7/16, David Henderson <dhenderson at digital-pipe.com> wrote:
> Good afternoon busyboxers!  I have been working with this software on
> one of my own projects and during the boot cycle I'm calling the crond
> applet to start.  As a means of keeping the output clean for the user,
> I've tried calling the binary as so:
>
> /usr/sbin/crond >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
>
> but no matter what, I get the following output:
>
> crond[140]: crond (busybox 1.23.1) started, log level 8
>
> How or why does busybox output in a way that can't be redirected?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>