Fwd: Silent Cron Jobs
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From: Strong Cypher <cypherstrong@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:13:54 +0100
Subject: Re: Silent Cron Jobs
To: Curt Howland <Howland@priss.com>
your script need to drop any think from output to be able to drop mail sending
you have to redirect any command line to a file or null node like this
cmd >& /dev/null
On 3/26/08, Curt Howland <Howland@priss.com> wrote:
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> Hi.
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> I tried to whip up a small cron job, I put a short script
> in /etc/cron.daily thinking that this would work.
>
> Well, yes, it works, but I get mail sent to me by cron explaining that
> the job executed successfully.
>
> I'd prefer not to get the mail. I don't get mail for any of the other
> jobs in cron.daily, and I don't understand enough of bash scripting
> to see how mine is different from the others.
>
> If all else fails I could just add a line to /etc/crontab, but I think
> the Debian way is so very much better coordinated and elegant.
>
> Curt-
>
> - --
> Treason! http://blog.mises.org/archives/007926.asp
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