Thanks a bunch to:
Oisin McGuinness
Jim Belonis
James Sainsbury
John J. Francini
Jeff Berliner
Dr. Thomas.Blinn_at_ Compaq.com
Steve VanDevender
The question was:
Any failed cron jobs send an email to root.
Is there a configuration we can modify to change it so
that the email is not sent??
The answer is as follows:
cron automatically mails any stdout and stderr data to
the owner of the cronjob. If your scripts are careful
to redirect this information, no mail will be sent.
If your cronjob looks like:
0 20 * * * /db8/backup/oracle/archive.sh
adding the following would eliminate any output:
0 20 * * * /db8/backup/oracle/archive_rvu.sh >
/dev/null 2>&1
That redirects any stdout and stderr to the null
device.
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Received on Mon Mar 26 2001 - 23:40:32 NZST