Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2020 21:26:00 +0200 From: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@nethead.se> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to silence cron? Message-ID: <64bf24be-b25e-0e7d-6cca-07d99f798b1a@nethead.se> In-Reply-To: <20200911224619.4a134d23@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <b0f49812-4d0a-e301-3ef2-816431ae3dbe@nethead.se> <20200911224619.4a134d23@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On 2020-09-11 23:46, RW via freebsd-questions wrote: > On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 15:11:49 +0200 > Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> What would be the proper way to silence output from a php script >> running under cron? I have tried variations of /dev/null and 2>&1 but >> getting nowhere. >> > > Have you tried > > SHELL=/bin/sh > > */5 * * * * su -m www -c "/usr/local/bin/php /usr/local/www/pathtoscript.php" >/dev/null 2>&1 > > the redirection has to take place under a bourne-compatible shell, > so outside of the quotes. > > > > > > On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 19:44:17 +0100 > tech-lists wrote: > > >> I *think* you can set MAILTO: to /dev/null but I'm not 100% sure. But >> if you can, I think it'll do what you want, if that is to have no >> mail at all for www user. > > Crontab variable assignments apply to the lines below the assignment. > It should be possible to divide the crontab into sections with different > MAILTO values. Yes, exactly, this is where I am aiming at now. Thanks all for replying!
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