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

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Pann McCuaig wrote:

[snip]


> > Actually, you should use ">/dev/null 2>&1" (which also redirects
> > stderr to /dev/null).
>
> "should" may be a little strong here. I don't want noise in my mailbox,
> but if stderr from a cron job is generating such noise, then it's likely
> something is misconfigured somewhere. IMHO, YMMV, etc.


Well, that's true.  I didn't know what level of stuff he'd want.

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