In article <20060131154204.GA8318@moray.salmi.ch>,
Jukka Salmi  <j+nbsd@2006.salmi.ch> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>after starting a process in the background
>
>	$ sleep 30 >/dev/null 2>&1 &
>
>and killing it
>
>	$ kill $! >/dev/null 2>&1
>
>the following is printed to the terminal:
>
>	[1]   Terminated              sleep 30 >/dev/null 2>&1
>
>even though I redirected standard output and error to /dev/null... I
>tried this with both /bin/sh and /bin/ksh on -current and 2.1_STABLE
>NetBSD systems. The Korn shell even prints the pid when starting the
>command in the background, e.g.
>
>	[1] 6980
>
>I guess it's the shell who prints these strings, isn't it? If yes, is
>there a way to suppress this output?
>
>
>TIA, Jukka

csh prints, ksh and sh don't.

christos