On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:28:35AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > For a long time I've done back ups by having cron run a script > regularly. At a certain point (can't recall the circumstances) that > ceased to work, and I've had to initiate the backups by hand. > > What happens is that Cron Daemon sends me a message that reports backup > progress, That is, I suppose there is one line in the message for every > file backed up. However, at a certain point, the message gets too big > and the backup terminates. I get a message from cron to the effect, > "mail failure - message too big". > > My guess is that I am exceeding the message size limit in exim (default > is 50Mb). I suppose I could simply configure exim to accept larger > messages by having: > > message_size_limit = 500 MB > > (not sure of syntax here), but I'd prefer that cron simply not send me > messages for this job. Is there any way I can modify my backup script to > tell cron to be silent or to send its report instead to a temporary log > file? cron will send you any output your script has. You just have to rewrite your script so that it doesn't produce any output. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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