Hi, Alec (alec1976nyc@yahoo.com) wrote: > > I make backups using a cron job and I set MAILTO="" > Can I configure cron to mail me > a) *only* when there were errors > b) email only STDERR (not STDOUT) You could simply supply a valid MAILTO and send STDOUT to /dev/null like so: MAILTO=whoever * * * * * whoever dothisandthat > /dev/null That way you will only get an email when there is output to STDERR. Hth, Gordon -- Gordon Fraser We come to bury DOS, not to praise it. gordon@freakzone.net (Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu, http://www.freakzone.net paraphrasing a quote of Shakespeare)
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