Re: Cron job without emailing errors to root?

2004-03-17 Thread Jonathan Arnold
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A quick question-- I run MRTG for many boxes on my network at five minute intervals, and I am seeing massive amounts of email filling up roots inbox due to boxes that are currently offline for the night or something. What I am wondering is, is if there is a way to still

Re: Cron job without emailing errors to root?

2004-03-16 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi! What I am wondering is, is if there is a way to still have the entries in me /etc/crontab to run MRTG at 5 minute intervals without having any output emailed out. You can set up MRTG to run as daemon using the RunAsDaemon keyword in the .cfg file. This way you don't need to run it from

Re: Cron job without emailing errors to root?

2004-03-10 Thread Khairil Yusof
On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 21:25 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I am wondering is, is if there is a way to still have the entries in me /etc/crontab to run MRTG at 5 minute intervals without having any output emailed out. can i make it come out to concole instead? anything to get it from

Re: Cron job without emailing errors to root?

2004-03-10 Thread Quintin Riis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 See documentation for crontab. ``MAILTO='' should do what you want, or send all output from command to /dev/null, i.e. command /dev/null Quintin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | A quick question-- | I run MRTG for many boxes on my network at five minute

Cron job without emailing errors to root?

2004-03-09 Thread phoetoid
A quick question-- I run MRTG for many boxes on my network at five minute intervals, and I am seeing massive amounts of email filling up roots inbox due to boxes that are currently offline for the night or something. What I am wondering is, is if there is a way to still have the entries in me

Re: Cron job without emailing errors to root?

2004-03-09 Thread Frank Mueller
See man 5 crontab: If MAILTO is defined (and non-empty), mail is sent to the user so named. If MAILTO is defined but empty (MAILTO=), no mail will be sent. So just add the following entry to your /etc/crontab: MAILTO= and cron will send no more eMails. A quick question-- I run MRTG for many