On Wednesday 26 November 2003 10:41 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have a number of scripts that run every night using a crontab. In my > crontab file I'm using the MAILTO flag to get cron to email me every > time it runs which results in a lot of emails. > > Is there any way of instructing cron to only email me if the cron job > fails?
By default, cron will email you whatever would be shown on the terminal when the script runs. The way I get around this is to redirect the stdout of the script to /dev/ null. Like this: 0 0 * * * /root/bin/myscript.sh > /dev/null -- Thanks, Charles http://howse.homeunix.net:8080 Random Murphy's Law: All general statements are false. (Think about it.) _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
