Re: Crontab Question
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 05:16:08PM -0400 or thereabouts, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> on Fri, 16 Jul 2004 04:44:59PM -0400, Ryan Waye insinuated:
> > Hello:
> > I have been having crontab report my exit statuses of backups
> > for some time now(they were the only thing there). But now that
> > I have getmail on the crontab, this is quickly flooding my
> > mailbox. It has been a while, and I can't remember how I made
> > cron do this. How do I reverse this setting?
>
> you mean, you want to stop the cron job? or just stop getting
> notified that it's doing its thing?
>
> to stop it:
>
> crontab -e
>
> and remove the appropriate line.
>
> to stop getting notified about it:
>
> crontab -e
>
> and put a '&>/dev/null' (no quotes) at the end of the line, so that
> its output goes to the trash, and not to your inbox.
>
> hth,
>
> </nori>
Thanks alot, that worked.
Ryan Waye
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