Hey, list, You may remember me asking previously about how to get cron to mail me the output of esync, which is working fine.... so fine, in fact, that I think I'll take Neil's recent suggestion of putting revdep-rebuild -p in cron.weekly and having that output mailed to me as well.
So atm, my cron jobs mail me the output of esync and glsa-check (and shortly revdep-rebuild -p). But there's also a default cron job that runs daily... test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons Now, I want this job to run, but I really don't need the input mailed to me, especially if this is what it is (and this *is* what it is): > !!! aux_get(): ebuild path for 'app-misc/FileRunner-2.5.1' not specified: > !!! None > Building database from scratch .. > Reading Portage settings .. > Using eix database in /var/cache/eix > Using portage cache: /usr/portage/ > Reading cache for main tree: > 0%000%001%002%002%003%004%005%005%006%007%008%008%009%010%010%011%012%013%013%014%015%016%016%017%018%018%019%020%021%021%022%023%024%024%025%026%027%027%028%029%029%030%031%032%032%033%034%035%035%036%037%037%038%039%040%040%041%042%043%043%044%045%045%046%047%048%048%049%050%051%051%052%053%054%054%055%056%056%057%058%059%059%060%061%062%062%063%064%064%065%066%067%067%068%069%070%070%071%072%072%073%074%075%075%076%077%078%078%079%080%081%081%082%083%083%084%085%086%086% 087%0 > Reading overlays .. > /usr/local/portage/ > 0%000%001%002%002%003%004%005%005%006%007%008%008%009%010%010%011%012%013%013%014%015%016%016%017%018%018%019%020%021%021%022%023%024%024%025%026%027%027%028%029%029%030%031%032%032%033%034%035%035%036%037%037%038%039%040%040%041%042%043%043%044%045%045%046%047%048%048%049%050%051%051%052%053%054%054%055%056%056%057%058%059%059%060%061%062%062%063%064%064%065%066%067%067%068%069%070%070%071%072%072%073%074%075%075%076%077%078%078%079%080%081%081%082%083%083%084%085%086%086%087% 088%08 > /usr/local/bmg-main/ > 0%000%001%002%002%003%004%005%005%006%007%008%008%009%010%010%011%012%013%013%014%015%016%016%017%018%018%019%020%021%021%022%023%024%024%025%026%027%027%028%029%029%030%031%032%032%033%034%035%035%036%037%037%038%039%040%040%041%042%043%043%044%045%045%046%047%048%048%049%050%051%051%052%053%054%054%055%056%056%057%058%059%059%060%061%062%062%063%064%064%065%066%067%067%068%069%070%070%071%072%072%073%074%075%075%076%077%078%078%079%080%081%081%082%083%083%084%085%086%086%087% 088%0 > Applying masks .. > Database contains 9542 packages in 137 categories. Woo-hoo. The only error in this I know about (just haven't fixed it yet, but since it's why I can't even install the program, I know that particular ebuild is broken), and the rest of the output is pretty non-informative/useless. Is there any way to *not* receive mail from specific cron jobs, while leaving the rest of the mails intact? I looked at man cron and man crontab, but they seemed to indicate that it's kind of an all-or-nothing deal. Alternatively, since the output cron jobs are being mailed via a mail -s command in the scripts themselves, can I/should I just put a dummy user in cron's 'normal' mailto slot, so that the "other" mail essentially goes to /dev/null? It's not a big problem now, but I can see how, as I learn more about cron and add more jobs for the daemon to run, it could get to be. What I'd *really* like is the output from the jobs that I've set to mail me output, and a summary of names of any other jobs that ran successfully, just so I know that they ran successfully. But I don't think cron does that... does it? Thanks for any help, Holly -- [email protected] mailing list
