Re: Cron Daemon backup message too big
- From: Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:27:37 +0300
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:28:35AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
For a long time I've done back ups by having cron run a script
regularly. At a certain point (can't recall the circumstances) that
ceased to work, and I've had to initiate the backups by hand.
What happens is that Cron Daemon sends me a message that reports backup
progress, That is, I suppose there is one line in the message for every
file backed up. However, at a certain point, the message gets too big
and the backup terminates. I get a message from cron to the effect,
"mail failure - message too big".
My guess is that I am exceeding the message size limit in exim (default
is 50Mb). I suppose I could simply configure exim to accept larger
messages by having:
message_size_limit = 500 MB
(not sure of syntax here), but I'd prefer that cron simply not send me
messages for this job. Is there any way I can modify my backup script to
tell cron to be silent or to send its report instead to a temporary log
file?
cron will send you any output your script has. You just have to rewrite
your script so that it doesn't produce any output.
Regards,
Andrei
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If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)
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