[ale] cron mail, how to STOP it.

Jim Lynch ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com
Sun Oct 16 06:16:07 EDT 2005


Geoffrey wrote:

>Paul Cartwright wrote:
>  
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>>I created a cron entry to check my yahoo mail using yosucker. I HATE 
>>getting emailed every X hours to tell me it ran... I "thought" the 
>>correct way to stop the mailing of a cron job running was to add a 
>>2>/dev/null at the end of the line.
>>here is the line I don't want mail from:
>>10 3,6,9,12,15,18 * * * /home/pbc/bin/yosucker
>>
>>
>>suggestions?
>>    
>>
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>10 3,6,9,12,15,18 * * * /home/pbc/bin/yosucker >/dev/null 2</dev/null
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>
Little bit of a typo here.  The "2</dev/null" should be "2>/dev/null" 
perhaps.  ;)

Jim.



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