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>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3FC4E92A.2030602>