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Re: Messages from Cron Daemon



Monday 28 of July 2003 17:28 je &F pisal:
>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

I realized that the messages were cause by Cron running a fetchmail job, which 
was not neccessary since fetchmail was already runnin the daemon mode.

Thank anyway.
J.Zidar



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