In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Karl Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Just a quick question!! >> >> How can I stop cron sending a message root everytime it runs a script. I >> have a couple of cron jobs that run every 15 minutes and I am getting >> hundreds of messages a day. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Andrew > >In the /etc/crontab whack a "2>&1 > /dev/null" on the end of it. Works >here anyway :-)
If you really want to suppress stderr output, you'll want to use ">/dev/null 2>&1" (the other way around). The "2>&1 > /dev/null" connected stdout to /dev/null and stderr to the _original_ stdout. What happens now is that all normal output from a script will be sent to /dev/null, and the stderr output (probably real errors) will be mailed. Hmm. Not so bad. That's probably just what you want. But I think the 2>&1 is superfluous. Mike. -- + Miquel van Smoorenburg + Cistron Internet Services + Living is a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SP6) | Independent Dutch ISP | horizontal | + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.cistron.nl/ + fall +
