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Re: Messages from Cron Daemon



On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 05:01:42PM +0200, J. Zidar wrote:
| How can one lower the frequency of messages (mails) from Cron Daemon?
| The text of the mail: 
| fetchmail: background fetchmail at 11547 awakened.
| 
| I have fetchmail running as a daemon but as I am not connected to the internet 
| all the time, that's why cron complains.

cron complains because the program it ran produced output.  Programs
run from cron are not supposed to produce output unless an error
occurs.  That's why cron mails you the output (it must have been an
error).

For fetchmail, add '--silent' to the command line options to suppress
informative output like that.

-D

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