On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 11:47:08AM -0500, goldengull.net administrator wrote:
> how do i get my hourly cron jobs to not mail me. this is killing my
> email! i don't mind daily or weekly, but hourly is a little to
> expensive.
You can redirect standard out to /dev/null, and leave standard error
alone to get mailed only when there are errors. For example, this could
be useful if you're running fetchmail out of a cron job. The "normal"
(output to stdout) messages will be thrown away, but any errors (output
to stderr) will be mailed to you.
0 * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail > /dev/null
If you're sure you want to ALWAYS discard the output and never receive
mail, then you have to redirect standard error (stderr, fd 2) to
/dev/null as well.
0 * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail > /dev/null 2>&1
Note this is Bourne Shell syntax, since /bin/sh is the default shell.
Also note that this will work on pretty much ANY unix or unix-like
system, not just Linux.
-michael
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