[email protected] (W. Greenhouse) writes: > Hi Julien, > > Julien Cubizolles <[email protected]> writes: > >> The subject says it all. I'm fetching news through emacs in batch mode >> in a cron job but I can't figure out how to get the possible errors >> through the mails sent by cron. >> >> In batch mode emacs output everything that should go to the *Messages* >> buffer to stderr so cron sends an email each time the job is run, even >> without any error. I don't want to receive an email when there is no >> problem. Is there a way to get emacs to send only the error messages to >> stderr ? >> >> Julien. > > Yes, this should be a matter of shell redirection. Cron actually sends > both stdout and stderr to email, so if you only want stderr, then you > should redirect stdout to /dev/null. There isn't a -quiet option or > similar for Emacs in batch mode, so it's all up to the shell.
From what I understand Emacs outputs the whole *Messages* buffer to stdout. So there is nothing the shell can do to sort error messages from information messages. Is that right ? _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
