diff --git a/setup/so-functions b/setup/so-functions
index 8f6716c0a..0f6f79d1d 100755
--- a/setup/so-functions
+++ b/setup/so-functions
@@ -1217,7 +1217,7 @@ salt_checkin() {
 
 # Run a salt command to generate the minion key
 salt_firstcheckin() {
-	salt-call state.show_top >> /dev/null # send output to /dev/null because we don't actually care about the ouput
+	salt-call state.show_top >> /dev/null 2>&1 # send output to /dev/null because we don't actually care about the ouput
 }
 
 set_base_heapsizes() {