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Date:      Sun, 3 Jun 2001 12:13:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Trevin Chow <tmchow@sfu.ca>
To:        Ryan Masse <mail@max-info.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Stop the logging of a cron job
Message-ID:  <20010603121231.R31880-100000@benny.geektank.org>
In-Reply-To: <00e801c0ec60$74c113c0$3200a8c0@Home>

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Are you sure this is supposed to stop the LOGGING of the cron job? By
logging, I mean I don't want an entry in my cron logs saying the cron job
was run.

Doesn't adding "> /dev/null" just send standard output to /dev/null?

On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Ryan Masse wrote:

> add a > /dev/null to the end of the crontab line
>
> Ryan
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Just wondering if there's a way to specify to NOT log a specific cron job
> > in the logs?
> >
> > I have a process (fetchmail specifically) to download my email from
> > another server every 2 mins.  Needless to say I don't want this process in
> > my cron logs.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
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