On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 10:09:51PM -0500, Chris Mirchandani wrote: > 2) If I enable logging for my remote ssh command, which is an ssh command, will < /dev/null> /dev/null 2>&1 change logging in any way? If you'd like to log the output to a file instead of throwing it away, then use this instead: yourcommand </dev/null >yourlogfile 2>&1 &