redirecting output in cron job not working
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed May 7 04:00:59 UTC 2008
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 7:04 AM, Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> wrote:
>
> Honestly, I don't want any output sent via email /unless/ the script fails.
> That's what I don't get. Why it was sending these emails in the first
> place, then not, now it is again. I really don't want to log anything on a
> successful run of the script, since there should be nothing to report. It's
> only on a failure that I want something logged.
Why send stderr to stdout then? Normally you would discard stdout
>/dev/null and leave stderr alone so only error output will trigger
the email.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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