How to stop "at" command e-mail me!

James Wilkinson james at westexe.demon.co.uk
Mon Aug 2 12:30:40 UTC 2004


Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> I use mpg123 as a morning alarm. I place the job using the "at" command. I'm 
> always getting output from the job (the mpg123 output bla bla) to my regular 
> user mail.  Fine..I just redirected stdout and stderr:
> 
> /usr/local/bin/mpg123 $HOME/musicfile.mp3 > /dev/null 2>&1
> 
> However, I still get mail saying "Job XXX Terminated..."  I read the man page 
> and searched Google but there's nothing out there.  Anyone knows how to deal 
> with it?

Are you sure that the redirection is being applied to the mpg123 not the
at?

Post a sample command line if you're not sure.

(My apologies if this is trivially obvious and you've already triple-
checked this...)

James.
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