Re: error to null in cron jobs

2003-09-18 Thread Jason Joines
Tim Wunder wrote: On 9/16/2003 12:23 PM, someone claiming to be Jason Joines wrote: Michael Hipp wrote: Jason Joines wrote: When I do the same thing in a script via cron, I get the error in the ouput even with 2/dev/null. I generally use /dev/null to keep things quiet. You can also put

error to null in cron jobs

2003-09-16 Thread Jason Joines
How do you send errors to /dev/null in cron jobs? When I run nslookup manually on an IP address that doesn't have a name associated with it I get this output: # nslookup 172.16.1.1 Server: dynegy.osucba.edu Address: 172.16.0.254 *** dynegy.osucba.edu can't find 172.16.1.1: Non-existent

Re: error to null in cron jobs

2003-09-16 Thread Michael Hipp
Jason Joines wrote: When I do the same thing in a script via cron, I get the error in the ouput even with 2/dev/null. I generally use /dev/null to keep things quiet. You can also put that at the end of the line in /etc/crontab to quiet the whole cron job. Michael