From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 24 07:16:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA17533 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 07:16:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from prepaid.atlas.com (atlas-201.atlas.com [206.29.170.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA17522 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 07:16:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Brian_Beattie@Atlas.com) Received: from coyote.prepaid.atlas.com(really [10.16.7.71]) by prepaid.atlas.com via sendmail with smtp id for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 07:14:57 -0800 (PST) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #1 built 1998-Jan-29) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 07:14:57 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Beattie X-Sender: Brian_Beattie@coyote.prepaid.atlas.com To: Spike Gronim cc: fbsdqs Subject: Re: Cron script. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Spike Gronim wrote: > Hello. > > I have a cron script which fetches my mail every few minutes. the > cron job looks like: > */5 * * * * /home/spork/bin/pop >> /dev/null */5 * * * * /home/spork/bin/pop > /dev/null 2>&1 This should I believe do what you want. > > I want it to go to /dev/null, not get mailed to me. I have tried using >, > >&,>>&, and >> and none work. How do I do this? > > > -Spike Gronim > sporkl@dti.net > > "I gonna wave my freak flag high." > --Jimi Hendrix > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Brian Beattie Atlas PrePaid Services Brian_Beattie@atlas.com 503.228.1400x4355 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message