diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index e0b9c4622..c34a7e470 100644
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 
 	* Vladimir Oleynik, Manuel Novoa III, Aaron Lehmann
 	    -- a whole bunch of ash size optimizations
+	    -- Fix for ash leading redirections (i.e. '2>/dev/null ls rubbish')
 	* Rodney Brown  <RDBrown@mira.net> 
 	    -- Optimized gzip.c, shrinking it be ~1.5k
 	* Matt Kraai
@@ -20,8 +21,8 @@
 	    -- Fix `-/bin/sh' invocation (closes: #1209).
 	    -- Fix ash exec (noted by Arne Bernin).
 	* Magick
-	    -- maked init run inittab command's in inittab order (
-		(i.e. FIFO instead of LIFO).
+	    -- made init run inittab command's in the order they show up
+		in the inittab file (FIFO instead of LIFO).
 
 
 	 -Erik Andersen, --not yet released--
diff --git a/ash.c b/ash.c
index 53fb56c2c..bd34c0efb 100644
--- a/ash.c
+++ b/ash.c
@@ -9857,6 +9857,14 @@ command() {
 	n1 = NULL;
 	rpp = &redir;
 
+	/* Check for redirection which may precede command */
+	while (readtoken() == TREDIR) {
+		*rpp = n2 = redirnode;
+		rpp = &n2->nfile.next;
+		parsefname();
+	}
+	tokpushback++;
+
 	switch (readtoken()) {
 	case TIF:
 		n1 = (union node *)stalloc(sizeof (struct nif));
@@ -10026,7 +10034,6 @@ TRACE(("expecting DO got %s %s\n", tokname(got), got == TWORD ? wordtext : ""));
 		if (!redir)
 			synexpect(-1);
 	case TWORD:
-	case TREDIR:
 		tokpushback++;
 		n1 = simplecmd();
 		return n1;
@@ -12673,7 +12680,7 @@ findvar(struct var **vpp, const char *name)
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 1999 Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
  * This file contains code for the times builtin.
- * $Id: ash.c,v 1.22 2001/08/12 17:32:56 mjn3 Exp $
+ * $Id: ash.c,v 1.23 2001/09/06 17:35:20 andersen Exp $
  */
 static int timescmd (int argc, char **argv)
 {
diff --git a/shell/ash.c b/shell/ash.c
index 53fb56c2c..bd34c0efb 100644
--- a/shell/ash.c
+++ b/shell/ash.c
@@ -9857,6 +9857,14 @@ command() {
 	n1 = NULL;
 	rpp = &redir;
 
+	/* Check for redirection which may precede command */
+	while (readtoken() == TREDIR) {
+		*rpp = n2 = redirnode;
+		rpp = &n2->nfile.next;
+		parsefname();
+	}
+	tokpushback++;
+
 	switch (readtoken()) {
 	case TIF:
 		n1 = (union node *)stalloc(sizeof (struct nif));
@@ -10026,7 +10034,6 @@ TRACE(("expecting DO got %s %s\n", tokname(got), got == TWORD ? wordtext : ""));
 		if (!redir)
 			synexpect(-1);
 	case TWORD:
-	case TREDIR:
 		tokpushback++;
 		n1 = simplecmd();
 		return n1;
@@ -12673,7 +12680,7 @@ findvar(struct var **vpp, const char *name)
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 1999 Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
  * This file contains code for the times builtin.
- * $Id: ash.c,v 1.22 2001/08/12 17:32:56 mjn3 Exp $
+ * $Id: ash.c,v 1.23 2001/09/06 17:35:20 andersen Exp $
  */
 static int timescmd (int argc, char **argv)
 {