Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:48:17 -0600 From: Charles Howse <chowse@charter.net> To: stuart.gibson@bridgeman.co.uk, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: crontab Message-ID: <200311261148.17839.chowse@charter.net> In-Reply-To: <3FC4D7D4.11526.C30C22@localhost> References: <3FC4D7D4.11526.C30C22@localhost>
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On Wednesday 26 November 2003 10:41 am, stuart.gibson@bridgeman.co.uk wrote: > Hi, > > I have a number of scripts that run every night using a crontab. In my > crontab file I'm using the MAILTO flag to get cron to email me every > time it runs which results in a lot of emails. > > Is there any way of instructing cron to only email me if the cron job > fails? By default, cron will email you whatever would be shown on the terminal when the script runs. The way I get around this is to redirect the stdout of the script to /dev/ null. Like this: 0 0 * * * /root/bin/myscript.sh > /dev/null -- Thanks, Charles http://howse.homeunix.net:8080 Random Murphy's Law: All general statements are false. (Think about it.)
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