Re: [gentoo-user] Another question on mailing cron-job output

2005-07-02 Thread James Hiscock
Is there any way to *not* receive mail from specific cron jobs, while leaving the rest of the mails intact? I looked at man cron and man crontab, but they seemed to indicate that it's kind of an all-or-nothing deal. It's not an all-or-nothing deal, depending on how you create the cron job:

[gentoo-user] Another question on mailing cron-job output

2005-06-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Hey, list, You may remember me asking previously about how to get cron to mail me the output of esync, which is working fine so fine, in fact, that I think I'll take Neil's recent suggestion of putting revdep-rebuild -p in cron.weekly and having that output mailed to me as well. So atm, my

Re: [gentoo-user] Another question on mailing cron-job output

2005-06-29 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This sounds perfectly reasonable. cron mails you and output the command sends to stdout, so yes, redirecting its output to a file would also prevent cron's email. the crontab lines would look something like: 0 * * * * command /dev/null echo