Curt Sampson wrote:

> In various complex scripts I have, I call dozens of programs many
> hundreds of times, and if they started generating output when
> functioning normally, I'd see a huge mass of messages, entirely
> obscuring any error messages that might be printed.

Well.. then redirect stdout into /dev/null.  I would find it highly 
useful to be able to discern if pkg_add just hangs, or is downloading 
packages, without having to enable the verbose debug output.

mkb.