disown : unable to stop stderr s **Problem:** Even with **dev null** and **disown**.. web browser is still reporting errors to the terminal it launched from of. web_browser < /dev/null > /dev/null 1>&2 & disown

You've got your redirections in disorder.


web_browser /dev/null 1>&2 & disown


What you did was first to redirect standard output to `/dev/null`, and then again to standard error.