Re: Cron help?!?
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 11:49:09AM -0800, Percival wrote:
> I am looking for some help with cron. I have read the man pages, but I still cannot figure out how to schedule a job and NOT have the stdout emailed to me.
>
> I am trying to run fetchmail to check some remote e-mail boxes several times an hour, and it works very well, but I end up with TOO many e-mails from cron. I tried to redirect, but I think that fetchmail doesn't work like that.
>
> Is there a better way to do this? Can exim do this for me?
Well for one if you want to make fetchmail do regular email checks, run it
like this:
fetchmail -d 300
This will make it run in the background and check for email every 5
minutes (600 seconds). But, to answer your question, you really need to
redirect the output like so:
...... fetchamil >/dev/null 2>&1
This sends all of stdout to /dev/null, and redirects stderr to stdout
(basically sending it to /dev/null too). You may want to leave off the
"2>&1" part so that error messages still get email to you, but for your
situtation, I suggest running fetchmail with -d from the command line.
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