[ale] cron mail, how to STOP it.

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Sun Oct 16 07:33:53 EDT 2005


Jim Lynch wrote:
> Geoffrey wrote:
> 
> 
>>Paul Cartwright wrote:
>> 
>>
>>
>>>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?
>>>   
>>>
>>
>>10 3,6,9,12,15,18 * * * /home/pbc/bin/yosucker >/dev/null 2</dev/null
>> 
>>
> 
> Little bit of a typo here.  The "2</dev/null" should be "2>/dev/null" 
> perhaps.  ;)

Oops, thanks Jim, that would be correct.  Fingers are faster then my 
brain...

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey



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