Re: 2 cron problems and 1 solution on XP

2005-09-30 Thread Brian Dessent
Mike Dieter wrote: > Is there a way to suppress CRON MAILING ME from 'mature' scripts where I > think I know what cron will say and I don't care? In addition to what Eric said (lose the '&' at the end), you can use MAILTO="" to tell cron not to send any mail on failure. "man 5 crontab" should be

Re: 2 cron problems and 1 solution on XP

2005-09-30 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Mike Dieter on 9/30/2005 9:35 PM: > So next I tried only escaping the percent sign AND IT WORKED! > 10 9 * * 1-5 /home/Gary/MCD.send --subject "`date +\%B` Clearance" 2>&1 >> /dev/null & Well, yeah - isn't that what 'man 5 crontab' said?