On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 11:49:09AM -0800, Percival wrote: > I am looking for some help with cron. I have read the man pages, but I still > cannot figure out how to schedule a job and NOT have the stdout emailed to me. > > I am trying to run fetchmail to check some remote e-mail boxes several times > an hour, and it works very well, but I end up with TOO many e-mails from > cron. I tried to redirect, but I think that fetchmail doesn't work like that. > > Is there a better way to do this? Can exim do this for me?
Well for one if you want to make fetchmail do regular email checks, run it like this: fetchmail -d 300 This will make it run in the background and check for email every 5 minutes (600 seconds). But, to answer your question, you really need to redirect the output like so: ...... fetchamil >/dev/null 2>&1 This sends all of stdout to /dev/null, and redirects stderr to stdout (basically sending it to /dev/null too). You may want to leave off the "2>&1" part so that error messages still get email to you, but for your situtation, I suggest running fetchmail with -d from the command line. -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
