From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 16 05:43:15 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 7943A16A4CE for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 05:43:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EEAE43D31 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 05:43:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id i2GDhCQQ030427; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 15:43:13 +0200 Message-Id: <200403161343.i2GDhCQQ030427@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from INFO/SpoolDir by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.48); 16 Mar 04 15:43:14 +0200 Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 16 Mar 04 15:43:12 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: phoetoid@pyrospheric.net Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 15:43:11 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal In-reply-to: <1786.192.168.1.17.1078889122.squirrel@mail.pyrospheric.net> cc: 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: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:43:15 -0000 Hi! > 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. You can set up MRTG to run as daemon using the RunAsDaemon keyword in the .cfg file. This way you don't need to run it from the crontab, which works around the problem. -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * I used to be indecisive but now I'm not sure.