diff --git a/doc/FUTURE_IDEAS b/doc/FUTURE_IDEAS
index 3fa7824a..675440a6 100644
--- a/doc/FUTURE_IDEAS
+++ b/doc/FUTURE_IDEAS
@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
--N for --pipe. Fixed race condition in --pipe.
-Tests for --pipe.
-Passes testsuite.
-
-
 codecoverage
 
 Testsuite: sem without ~/.parallel
diff --git a/src/parallel b/src/parallel
index 3d3673bc..dccb5303 100755
--- a/src/parallel
+++ b/src/parallel
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ use strict;
 use Carp;
 
 $::oodebug=0;
-$Global::original_sigterm = $SIG{TERM};
+$Global::original_sigterm = $SIG{TERM} || sub { exit 0; }; # $SIG{TERM} is not set on Mac OS X
 $SIG{TERM} = sub {}; # Dummy until jobs really start
 open $Global::original_stderr, ">&STDERR" or die "Can't dup STDERR: $!";
 
diff --git a/testsuite/tests-to-run/test41.sh b/testsuite/tests-to-run/test41.sh
index 3e950c10..afcbbc1e 100644
--- a/testsuite/tests-to-run/test41.sh
+++ b/testsuite/tests-to-run/test41.sh
@@ -5,5 +5,5 @@ SERVER2=parallel-server2
 
 echo '### Test -M (--retries to avoid false errors)'
 
-seq 1 30 | parallel -j5 --retries 3 -k -M -S $SERVER1,parallel@$SERVER2 echo
-seq 1 30 | parallel -j10 --retries 3 -k -M -S $SERVER1,parallel@$SERVER2 echo
+seq 1 30 | parallel -j5 --retries 3 -k -M -S $SERVER1,parallel@$SERVER2 echo 2>/dev/null
+seq 1 30 | parallel -j10 --retries 3 -k -M -S $SERVER1,parallel@$SERVER2 echo 2>/dev/null