diff --git a/repo2html b/repo2html
index 8ab5ad9..16ec4f3 100755
--- a/repo2html
+++ b/repo2html
@@ -123,11 +123,13 @@ listcache=.list
   | ./processor "$repotype" "$path_out" 2> >( _htmlout )
 
 # re-process cref errors (but only once; any errors at this point will be
-# considered to be problem refs) TODO: RSS
+# considered to be problem refs) TODO: RSS; note that we redirect all output to
+# /dev/null so as not to re-output the index template
 export cref_errlog=.cref-bad
 >"$cref_errlog"
-grep -f<( sed 's/^/\^/' "$cref_errlog_first" ) "$listcache" \
-  | ./processor "$repotype" "$path_out" 2> >( _reout )
+( grep -f<( sed 's/^/\^/' "$cref_errlog_first" ) "$listcache" \
+  | ./processor "$repotype" "$path_out" 2> >( _reout ) \
+) >/dev/null
 
 # if any invalid crefs remain, then they're bad
 [ ! -s "$cref_errlog" ] || {