On 09/18/2012 05:26 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > echo "$MESSAGE" 1>&2 > > is the usual way, so that it follows the stderr file handle > assigned to that sub-shell, rather than (as here in your > approach) trying to write directly to a device to which it > does not have rights Russ, it is evident I was confused about it. Now I understand why it wasn't possible to run the script through su without all those permission denied messages. I will update the script to fix this, based on your suggestion, and will commit the changes up to the central repository soon. Thank you, -- Alain Reguera Delgado <alain.reguera@xxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs