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From: Oleg Kolesnikov <ok@univers.cv.ua>
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Subject: [Q] cp error messages when disk is write protected, how to disable (see letter)
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When I mount dos diskette:
mount_msdos /dev/fd0.1440 /dos_disk
and diskette is write protected, command:
cp <something> /dos_disk
outputs lots of errors to the console.

The question is how to redirect ALL the error messages to some file.

I tried to kill syslogd, redirect stderr of cp to /dev/null, etc. etc.
but it seems to me that kernel generates all those message, so the only
solution is to patch kernel's fd driver.
Are there any other variants ?
(My system is FreeBSD2.2.2-RELEASE)

Best wishes,
Oleg Kolesnikov