Re: Cron help?!?
Excellent! Thank you all for the quick answers. I had no idea that fetchmail could run as a daemon. That is definitely the best way to do it, as I don't want to have multiple crontab entries (to run it every five minutes), and I don't want to disable other error mailings from cron (via MAILTO env var for cron).
-Percival
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 04:46:39PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> 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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