Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:47:51 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: stuart.gibson@bridgeman.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: crontab Message-ID: <3FC4E747.2000503@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <3FC4D7D4.11526.C30C22@localhost> References: <3FC4D7D4.11526.C30C22@localhost>
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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.
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