Rob Hudson wrote,
>How does one disable the output of certain cron jobs?  I have some 
>backup scripts running and other things and don't need to see all of 
>that stuff in an email.  Can I silently discard the output of those 
>scripts that run?

The incantation I usually use is this:

     myscript.sh >/dev/null 2>&1

where "myscript.sh" is the script to be run by the cron job.  This goes in
the crontab file, in the "command to be run" field.

The ">/dev/null" discards the standard output, and "2>&1" says to send the
standard error to the same place as the standard output.

             - Neil Parker
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