Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 07:40:59 -0500 From: Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold@buddydog.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cron job without emailing errors to root? Message-ID: <4058475B.3040604@buddydog.org> In-Reply-To: <1786.192.168.1.17.1078889122.squirrel@mail.pyrospheric.net> References: <1786.192.168.1.17.1078889122.squirrel@mail.pyrospheric.net>
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phoetoid@pyrospheric.net wrote: > A quick question-- > I run MRTG for many boxes on my network at five minute intervals, and I am > seeing massive amounts of email filling up roots inbox due to boxes that > are currently offline for the night or something. > > What I am wondering is, is if there is a way to still have the entries in > me /etc/crontab to run MRTG at 5 minute intervals without having any > output emailed out. can i make it come out to concole instead? anything to > get it from emailing would be great as I am seeing ~2000 messages a day :/ Here's a little note I wrote in my blog about making a cron job *not* send you email: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/archives/000125.html -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/
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