Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:55:54 -0600 From: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: crontab Message-ID: <3FC4E92A.2030602@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <3FC4E747.2000503@daleco.biz> References: <3FC4D7D4.11526.C30C22@localhost> <3FC4E747.2000503@daleco.biz>
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Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > 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? >> >> regards >> >> Stuart Gibson >> >> >> > > Sure! > > > Redirect stderror to /dev/null: > > /bin/sh /home/me/myscript > /dev/null > > And this one won't mail you, whether it errors > or not.... > > /bin/sh /home/me/myscript > /dev/null 2>&1 > > > Kevin Kinsey > DaleCo, S.P. Very cool! Now, what if you do the same, but instead of the normal crons, can something like this be done with the /etc/periodic/daily, weekly, and monthly routines? -- Best regards, Chris ______________________________________________________________________ PGP Fingerprint = D976 2575 D0B4 E4B0 45CC AA09 0F93 FF80 C01B C363 PGP Mail encouraged / preferred - keys available on common key servers ______________________________________________________________________ 01010010011000010110001101100101011100100101100000000000
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