> Is there any way to *not* receive mail from specific cron jobs, while
> leaving the rest of the mails intact? I looked at man cron and man
> crontab, but they seemed to indicate that it's kind of an all-or-nothing
> deal.
It's not an all-or-nothing deal, depending on how you create the cron
job: instead of adding a script to
/etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly} (where it _is_ an
all-or-nothing deal, because of the /etc/crontab entry that runs the
jobs), just add it to /etc/crontab, and redirect the output to
/dev/null for the jobs you don't want the output for, as was already
suggested.
...or, if you want the job to be run by a specific user, use "crontab
-e" to create a job schedule for a given user.
> What I'd *really* like is the output from the jobs that I've set to mail
> me output, and a summary of names of any other jobs that ran
> successfully, just so I know that they ran successfully.
For this, you can do something like:
* * * * * echo "somescriptsomewhere" && /some/script/somewhere
That'd get you the name of the script (anything after echo) and all of
the output of /some/script/somewhere... and the way I've written that
crontab entry, the script would be run every minute of every day,
which probably isn't what you want. See "man 5 crontab" for info on
the file format. There's no need for a "mail -s" command in there at
all...
(one other suggestion, although I'm not sure it's going to be useful
for ya: you might want to add "-q" to your esync cron job [on the
update-eix part], so you don't get that annoying output at the end
when it's updating the cache... of course, that'll kill any output
from update-eix, so I'm not entirely sure how much that'll help...)
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