John Covici wrote: > On Tue, 06 Apr 2021 13:43:31 -0400, > Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I set up a hard drive to backup my emails, world file, /etc and a couple >> other things. I been doing it manually but finally set up a cron job to >> run it automatically. I call it a script but some may laugh at me >> calling it that. Anyway, I got cron to run it just fine. It runs and >> copies it over just like it should. I set it to do that each hour. >> Thing is, it sends a email every time it does it. I don't mind a email >> if there is a error but don't want one if it runs successfully. This is >> the cron file I set up. It's placed in the hourly directory. >> >> >> #!/bin/bash >> /root/mail-backup > /dev/null 2>&1 || true >> # >/dev/null 2>&1 >> >> >> I got a lot of hits doing a google search and the only thing I see is to >> direct it to /dev/null. From examples I've seen, this should work. I >> then ran across the one currently up there with true in it. I don't >> understand that but tried it anyway. It still sends emails. I also >> tried the one commented out below that as well. Still emails. >> >> Keep in mind, I do not want to disable ALL emails, just this one >> script. How does one disable emails for this one cron job? Do I have a >> typo or putting it in wrong place maybe? Everything I found shows this >> should work but obviously I'm doing something wrong. Again, error >> emails are fine. I don't want successful runs tho. >> >> Thanks much. > I think you have to do it in your actual backup script or put the > whole thing in the hourly directory putting >/dev/null at the end of > each rsync command, but leaving off the 2>&1, so you will get error > messages. >
This seems to be working. Since I added the null bit to the script itself, it hasn't sent a email. I don't know if it will if it fails but I still have weekly backups as well. It seems I had the right option, just put it in the wrong place. I figured it would be something like that. Thanks to all. Dale :-) :-)
