Hi Karthik, You can redirect the messages to /dev/null so that it wont appear to user. You can do it by killall -9 process >& /dev/null. Also try using signal function call for doing these operations. Thanks, Krishnaprasad -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kartik CDS Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 4:18 PM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Supressing Console output Hi, I have a C++ program where i call the system call system("killall -9 MyProcess"); When i run the program and the Process "MyProcess" is not running, i get a message on my konsole *MyProcess: no process killed* I dont want anything to be printed on the console when i run the programme, wheather or not "MyProcess" is running. How can this be done? Regards, Kartik CDS -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list