Re: [gentoo-user] Another question on mailing cron-job output

2005-07-02 Thread James Hiscock
> 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:

Re: [gentoo-user] Another question on mailing cron-job output

2005-06-29 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This sounds perfectly reasonable. cron mails you and output the command sends to stdout, so yes, redirecting its output to a file would also prevent cron's email. the crontab lines would look something like: 0 * * * * command > /dev/null && echo "co

Re: [gentoo-user] Another question on mailing cron-job output

2005-06-29 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: > hello, > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 03:42:08PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > >>Hey, list, > > > >>Alternatively, since the output cron jobs are being mailed via a mail -s >>command in the scripts themselves, can I/should I just put a dummy user >>in cron's 'normal'

Re: [gentoo-user] Another question on mailing cron-job output

2005-06-29 Thread z3rosix
hello, On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 03:42:08PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > Hey, list, > Alternatively, since the output cron jobs are being mailed via a mail -s > command in the scripts themselves, can I/should I just put a dummy user > in cron's 'normal' mailto slot, so that the "other" mail essen