Monday 28 of July 2003 17:28 je &F pisal: >On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 05:01:42PM +0200, J. Zidar wrote: >| How can one lower the frequency of messages (mails) from Cron Daemon? >| The text of the mail: >| fetchmail: background fetchmail at 11547 awakened. >| >| I have fetchmail running as a daemon but as I am not connected to the >| internet all the time, that's why cron complains. > >cron complains because the program it ran produced output. Programs >run from cron are not supposed to produce output unless an error >occurs. That's why cron mails you the output (it must have been an >error). > >For fetchmail, add '--silent' to the command line options to suppress >informative output like that. > >-D
I realized that the messages were cause by Cron running a fetchmail job, which was not neccessary since fetchmail was already runnin the daemon mode. Thank anyway. J.Zidar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
