Control: tag -1 +confirmed Hi,
I confirm your problem. In v1.x the trailing "> /dev/null" was purposely chopped of the end of the line because there wasn't an OnSucces= handler anyway and the goal was to further parse the bash-one liner. Some of the brittle bash-parsing has already been dropped of from 2.x. We can either [1] remove the code that chop of the /dev/null or [2] isolate it to only run when CRON_MAIL_SUCCESS=never (a setting that allow users to revert to the previous behaviour). I personally prefer "1" because of my own past habits even if "2" will look cleaner from a new point of view.. --- a/src/bin/systemd-crontab-generator.cpp +++ b/src/bin/systemd-crontab-generator.cpp @@ -497,6 +497,9 @@ struct Job { this->command.command0 = std::move(pgm); } + if(this->cron_mail_success != cron_mail_success_t::never) + return; if(this->command.size() > 2 && this->command.command.e[-2] == ">"sv && this->command.command.e[-1] == "/dev/null"sv) this->command.command.e -= 2; if(this->command.size() > 1 && this->command.command.e[-1] == ">/dev/null"sv) Le mar. 12 sept. 2023 à 21:12, John Flinchbaugh <j...@nucleus.hjsoft.com> a écrit : > Dear Maintainer, > > I can put a simple command with a redirect to a file or /dev/null, and > systemd-cron continues to email the output of the command. See the > following excerpt from the email, which shows the command I'm running: > 2023-09-12T18:44:00+0000 nucleus.hjsoft.com systemd[1]: Starting > cron-john-john-3.service - [Cron] "* * * * * ls -la > /dev/null"... > > I would have not expected to see the output in email. > > Work-around: > I can get the redirect to work, if I change the cron entry to: > ---- > * * * * * bash -lc "ls -la > /dev/null"