From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 10 02:14:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5901416A4CE for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 02:14:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from server945.gisol.com (server945.gisol.com [207.44.208.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EBEE43D31 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 02:14:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from webmaster@countrypure.net) Received: from 64-251-141-177-dialup-mo.fidnet.com ([64.251.141.177] helo=countrypure.net) by server945.gisol.com with asmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1B10iz-0005ci-HP; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 02:14:06 -0800 Message-ID: <404ED592.609@countrypure.net> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 02:45:06 -0600 From: Quintin Riis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: phoetoid@pyrospheric.net References: <1786.192.168.1.17.1078889122.squirrel@mail.pyrospheric.net> In-Reply-To: <1786.192.168.1.17.1078889122.squirrel@mail.pyrospheric.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.81.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - server945.gisol.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - countrypure.net cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cron job without emailing errors to root? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:14:06 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 See documentation for crontab. ``MAILTO=""'' should do what you want, or send all output from command to /dev/null, i.e. command &> /dev/null Quintin 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 :/ | | Many thanks | | _______________________________________________ | freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list | http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions | To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" | | | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFATtU/kt6kXuDr+LcRAi80AJwIsnuyb+qjXcyvVBHig1KKtV9SzACgvB8w etEVNGDLyg2vfNWPhCD7Axw= =s/nF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----