cron job

[Nifty Fedora Mitch]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 04:29:44PM -0400, Max Pyziur wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 tony.chamberlain at lemko.com wrote:
>
>>
>> Output from nightly cronjobs is filling root's mailbox quickly,
>> and sending everything else to /var/spool/mqueue.  These are just
>> status messages (stdout) from the cronjobs which we don't really need
>> mailed to root.  Is there anyway to suppress mailings?
>
> Send your jobs to /dev/null like so:
> 30 0 * * * /path/to/program >> /dev/null
>
> Make sense?

The above addresses stdout as requested
also consider stderr..

2       1   *   *  *    $HOME/bin/check-calendar > /dev/null 2>&1 < /dev/null &

In general a unix program should be 'silent' unless there is an error.
If cronjobs are filling the mailbox too quickly then look at the jobs
to see why they are generating so much traffic.

Also since this is root and most users 'never' login as root, ;-) also look at
/etc/aliases.  It is possible to send mail for root to a person. That person can
sort, filter, read  and dispose of the traffic as needed.  Look near the lines:

	# Person who should get root's mail
	#root:          marc

Don't forget to run newaliases.


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