RE: Cron/Fetchmail mail

[gregory mott <gmott ntlworld com>]

On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 12:02, Cowles, Steve wrote:
> > From: Edward Dekkers
> > Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 4:41 AM
> > 
> > I have put in a crontab:
> > */30	*	*	*	*	/usr/bin/fetchmail > /dev/null
> > 
> > This works great unless there are errors, then they are mailed to the 
> > crontab owner.
> > 
> > Can they be suppressed completely? Even when there's an error?
> 
> I would think fetchmail is outputting any errors to stderr. The above
> crontab entry is only redirecting stdout, not stdout and stderr.
> 
> Try: */30 * * * *	/usr/bin/fetchmail >/dev/null 2>&1

i think fetchmail is silent to stdout/err when you tell it to log to
syslog instead.  fwiw i also run it as daemon instead of relaunching it
all the time.