On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 11:35:46PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > what's redirecting to '/dev/null' good for? here's > an example. if you're not running 'fetchmail' as its > own background daemon, to yank your email from various > servers, you can have cron do it for you. the thing is, > you get lots of tripe in the output. it tells you all > about how each message contains X octets, and how it's > downloading the data... none of which you really need. > > 15 * * * * fetchmail > /dev/null 2>&1
Not to be mean or anything, but FYI fetchmail can be made silent with "-s": -s, --silent work silently But then again, you probably already knew that. :) > you can also use /dev/null for STDIN as in > somecommand < /dev/null > in which case for ANY 'read' that the command does > from STDIN, it'll get EOF forever. Yup, just like the following line demonstrates nicely: :) > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ > < /dev/null Sven -- Have you rebooted your NT box today?
