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   Michael Fierro was all like, you know, and said something like...   
      
   >   
   > Try this:   
   >   
   >         */5 * * * * killall -USR1 xfdesktop >/dev/null 2>&1   
   >   
      
   Excactly what I ended up doing - may be a hack, but it works .   
      
   > all standard input to /dev/null, and to interleave standard error   
   > messages there, too.[...]   
   > just ">/dev/null," which would discard all of the standard input, but would   
   > let error messages still be sent. For the simple command you are running,   
   > though, you probably won't have to worry about any errors.   
   >   
      
   I like that - think I'll switch to it and see how it goes.   
      
   Thanks for your time!   
      
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