Re: keeping tar quiet in script

2007-04-01 Thread Cédric Lucantis
Le samedi 31 mars 2007 21:55, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto a écrit : I'm using a simple script for making backups with tar. I can't make tar quiet, so cron keeps mailing me 'Removing leading `/' from member names' . Adding /dev/null doesn't help. What can I do to catch tar's output and

keeping tar quiet in script

2007-03-31 Thread Peter Teunissen
Hi all, I'm using a simple script for making backups with tar. I can't make tar quiet, so cron keeps mailing me 'Removing leading `/' from member names' . Adding /dev/null doesn't help. What can I do to catch tar's output and keep it from shouting all over the place? Tnx, Peter

Re: keeping tar quiet in script

2007-03-31 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Peter Teunissen dies 31/03/2007 hora 21:48: Adding /dev/null doesn't help. What can I do to catch tar's output and keep it from shouting all over the place? What about the classical 1 /dev/null 21? Quicky, Pierre -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A signature.asc Description:

Re: keeping tar quiet in script

2007-03-31 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I'm using a simple script for making backups with tar. I can't make tar quiet, so cron keeps mailing me 'Removing leading `/' from member names' . Adding /dev/null doesn't help. What can I do to catch tar's output and keep it from shouting all over the place? a /dev/null redirects stdout

Re: keeping tar quiet in script

2007-03-31 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On 3/31/07, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using a simple script for making backups with tar. I can't make tar quiet, so cron keeps mailing me 'Removing leading `/' from member names' . Adding /dev/null doesn't help. What can I do to catch tar's output and keep it

Re: keeping tar quiet in script

2007-03-31 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
What about the classical 1 /dev/null 21? This probably has identical behavior identical to /dev/null, but is longer to type. /dev/null seems less portable. Here I have bash and dash, and /dev/null does not work under dash. 1 /dev/null 21 works everywhere. -- Software is like sex: it is

Re: keeping tar quiet in script

2007-03-31 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 31-mrt-2007, at 21:56, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: On 3/31/07, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using a simple script for making backups with tar. I can't make tar quiet, so cron keeps mailing me 'Removing leading `/' from member names' . Adding

Re: keeping tar quiet in script

2007-03-31 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 05:01:31PM -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: What about the classical 1 /dev/null 21? This probably has identical behavior identical to /dev/null, but is longer to type. /dev/null seems less portable. Here I have bash and dash, and /dev/null does not