Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:26:45 -0700 From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: jhall@vandaliamo.net Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org - Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Redirecting STDOUT Message-ID: <0725F14B-D147-4970-9CE2-52214D7A8BDC@dpcsys.com> In-Reply-To: <49457.65.117.48.155.1198258492.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> References: <51935.12.170.206.13.1198248568.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> <1044977630.20071221175247@bk.ru> <49254.65.117.48.155.1198256367.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> <863400045.20071221201413@bk.ru> <49457.65.117.48.155.1198258492.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net>
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On Dec 21, 2007, at 10:34 AM, jhall@vandaliamo.net wrote: > >> In that case you only redirecting STDERR to file. As you've been >> already told STDOUT will be redirected with >> >> $ command 1>file >> >> or >> >> $ command > file >> >> adding 2>&1 will also redirect STDERR to this file >> > > When I run this as a non-root user it works fine. But, when > running it as > root, it does not produce the expected results. > > $ ls -l /fjdkslafjdl 2>/home/hallja/test2 > And, in the file test2, I see > > ls: /fjdkslafjdl: No such file or directory > > Running the same command as root, I receive the following results. > # ls -l /fjdkslafjdl 2>/home/hallja/test2 > ls: /fjdkslafjdl: No such file or directory > > And, in /home/hallja/test2 I see the following. > -rw-r--r-- 1 root hallja 0 Dec 21 08:02 2 > > Why does this not work as root? > When you are root type in # echo $SHELL Unless you previously invoked /bin/sh # sh you are almost certainly running csh Dan
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