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

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2001 17:05:22 -0500 (EST) "J.A" <skiper arupa or id>
imparted to us:
> 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?

'fetchmail -d <time_in_seconds>' is the best way. But in general to keep
cron from ailing stuff append this to the end of the line that calls a
function in the crontab:

		> /dev/null 2>&1

Prevents any output at all from occurring, including error messages.

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