Re: How to stop a cron job sending email

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:02:27PM +1100, Karl Auer wrote:

How about letting us see one of those emails?

It is just the output of the command.


I'm not familiar with that syntax ("&>"). If it's legal bash syntax, it
could be that it is one of the syntax subtleties NOT supported by dash,
the new /bin/sh shell.

I did not realise that it is a 'bashism'.

If the cron output in the emails is truly innocent, and not a symptom of
some deeper problem, you could try the more standard syntax for
redirecting stdout and stderr to null and see if that helps:

killall fetchmail > /dev/null 2>&1
/usr/bin/fetchmail > /dev/null 2>&1

I'm curious though - why on earth are you killing and restarting
fetchmail every five minutes?!?

I collect mail (by imap) every 5 minutes. It happened in the past
due to a slow network connection that the previous process did not
finish in 5 minutes.

Regards
Johann
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