Re: How to dump cron messages to /dev/null

[George McConnell <gmccon mindspring com>]

On Tue, 2001-11-06 at 17:05, J.A wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I set crontab to run fetchmail every 2 minutes.
> But I'm bored of getting my mailbox full with Cron
> Daemon messages saying that another fetchmail is
> running.
> So anybody can tell me how to dump
> those messages to /dev/null?
> 

Just run fetchmail in daemon mode (-d) and then it won't bug you every time it starts up.
That way you only have to start it once and you can take it out of cron.