On 3/26/08, Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried to whip up a small cron job, I put a short script > in /etc/cron.daily thinking that this would work. > > Well, yes, it works, but I get mail sent to me by cron explaining that > the job executed successfully.
That's odd, usually cron only sends mail if the job failed or there was output. Is there output? Even if it's a single space or a blank line? > I'd prefer not to get the mail. I don't get mail for any of the other > jobs in cron.daily, and I don't understand enough of bash scripting > to see how mine is different from the others. You can always dump the output to /dev/null. In case you don't know: | command_here >/dev/null 2>&1 This has the disadvantage that legitimate messages may be discarded. Your call. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
