Fwd: Silent Cron Jobs

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From: Strong Cypher <cypherstrong@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:13:54 +0100
Subject: Re: Silent Cron Jobs
To: Curt Howland <Howland@xxxxxxxxx>

your script need to drop any think from output to be able to drop mail sending
you have to redirect any command line to a file or null node like this
cmd >& /dev/null


On 3/26/08, Curt Howland <Howland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Hi.

I tried to whip up a small cron job, I put a short script
in /etc/cron.daily thinking that this would work.

Well, yes, it works, but I get mail sent to me by cron explaining that
the job executed successfully.

I'd prefer not to get the mail. I don't get mail for any of the other
jobs in cron.daily, and I don't understand enough of bash scripting
to see how mine is different from the others.

If all else fails I could just add a line to /etc/crontab, but I think
the Debian way is so very much better coordinated and elegant.

Curt-

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