Re: message from cron

[Travis Crump <pretzalz@techhouse.org>]

John F. wrote:
> I am getting about 60 or so messages a day from the cron daemon.  I 
> would like to stop them coming, but I don't know how.  I would think if 
> I disabled the netnews server, but it doesn't show up as being enabled 
> with "ksysv", so I don't know what to do.  A complete copy of one of the 
> messages is below:
>
> Envelope-to: news@debian
> From: root@debian (Cron Daemon)
> To: news@debian
> Subject: Cron <news@debian> test -x /usr/bin/rnews && rnews -U
> X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/lib/news/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin>
> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/var/spool/news>
> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=news>
>
> Hostname does not resolve or 'domain' in inn.conf is missing
>
> Thanks

If you don't want any output sent to you, pipe the cron job output 
somewhere.  'test -x /usr/bin/rnews && rnews -U' would become '(test -x 
/usr/bin/rnews && rnews -U) > [somewhere] 2>&1'.  [somewhere] can be 
/dev/null or something like /var/log/rnews-cron.  The cron script that 
needs to be edited is probably in /etc/cron.d/.