(clug-talk) Crontab logging

[Kevin Anderson]

I have a cronjob that's giving me action.   I have a job schedules, and it's successfully running every 5 mins.  This creates a mountain of log files which I'd like to ignore, because they are irrelevant.  The job just checks a mail queue, and retries anything that might be stalled for any reason.   Anyway, I appended "> /dev/null" onto the end of the line in the crontab, but it's still giving me the output.  I know that it shouldn't, I've used this before.   Does anyone have any suggestions?  I've seen a few people appending "> /dev/null 2>&1" but since I'm not too sure what this does, I'm wondering if it could be explained...   Thoughts or suggestions appreciated.   Thanks Kev.