diff --git a/DDV_Controller/main.cpp b/DDV_Controller/main.cpp
index 801a731a..8caea2a0 100644
--- a/DDV_Controller/main.cpp
+++ b/DDV_Controller/main.cpp
@@ -522,6 +522,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv){
                     Response["log"] = Storage["log"];
                     Response["statistics"] = Storage["statistics"];
                     Response["authorize"]["username"] = TOSTRING(COMPILED_USERNAME);
+                    Log("UPLK", "Responding to login challenge: " + Request["authorize"]["challenge"].asString());
                     Response["authorize"]["password"] = md5(TOSTRING(COMPILED_PASSWORD) + Request["authorize"]["challenge"].asString());
                     it->H.Clean();
                     it->H.SetBody("command="+HTTP::Parser::urlencode(Response.toStyledString()));
diff --git a/util/util.cpp b/util/util.cpp
index d599c0d0..773248f7 100644
--- a/util/util.cpp
+++ b/util/util.cpp
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <iostream>
 #include <sys/types.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
 #include <pwd.h>
 #include <getopt.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
@@ -147,11 +148,14 @@ pid_t Util::Procs::Start(std::string name, std::string cmd, std::string cmd2){
     return 0;
   }
 
+  int devnull = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR);
   pid_t ret = fork();
   if (ret == 0){
     close(pfildes[0]);
-    dup2(pfildes[1],1);
+    dup2(pfildes[1],STDOUT_FILENO);
     close(pfildes[1]);
+    dup2(devnull, STDIN_FILENO);
+    dup2(devnull, STDERR_FILENO);
     runCmd(cmd);
   }else{
     if (ret > 0){
@@ -165,12 +169,14 @@ pid_t Util::Procs::Start(std::string name, std::string cmd, std::string cmd2){
       return 0;
     }
   }
-  
+
   pid_t ret2 = fork();
   if (ret2 == 0){
     close(pfildes[1]);
-    dup2(pfildes[0],0);
+    dup2(pfildes[0],STDIN_FILENO);
     close(pfildes[0]);
+    dup2(devnull, STDOUT_FILENO);
+    dup2(devnull, STDERR_FILENO);
     runCmd(cmd2);
   }else{
     if (ret2 > 0){