cron output redirection

From: Dermot Paikkos <dermot_at_sciencephoto.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 14:08:38 +0100

Hi Managers,

TRU64 5.1

I have tried to redirect the output from cron to /dev/null for a couple
of jobs that run frequently during the day. I can't seem to get it to
work and I am being bombarded with mails that are of no use.

I have tried the following in the root crontab:

chown -R images /images/hires/*.jpg >& /dev/null
chown -R images /images/hires/*.jpg /dev/null 2>&1

Neither have worked. I am still getting the following message when
there is no file to chown. Is there some way to avoid this?
Thanx.
Dp.


chown: /images/hires/*.jpg: No such file or directory

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Cron: The previous message is the standard output
      and standard error of the following crontab command:

chown -R images /usr2/images/dump_hires/*.jpg /dev/null 2>&1
Received on Tue Jul 22 2003 - 13:06:09 NZST

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