Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 09:41:45 -0600 From: "Elliot Finley" <efinleywork@efinley.com> To: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No output from periodic Message-ID: <09a901c34567$72036900$b4be0ed0@elliotdevelop> References: <087c01c34560$7ed08e80$b4be0ed0@elliotdevelop> <20030708153145.GL87950@dan.emsphone.com>
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Yeah, I tried that... Now I just get a blank email from cron. :) Anyone know how to make cron not send an email when there's no output? Elliot ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: "Elliot Finley" <elliot@etv.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 9:31 AM Subject: Re: No output from periodic > In the last episode (Jul 08), Elliot Finley said: > > I have a periodic that runs every 15 minutes. I have 5 scripts in > > the directory that it processes. Most of the time, the 5 scripts > > don't have to do anything, and thus don't have any output. When that > > happens, periodic outputs 'No output from the 5 files processed'. > > > > Is there a way to make periodic not output anything so that I don't > > get an email from cron every 15 minutes? > > Commenting out that line in /usr/sbin/periodic seems to be the way to > go. > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com
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