hello, On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 03:42:08PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > Hey, list, > 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? > the only thing i know is to put all the output of the cronjob you won't have an email to /dev/null for example: 3 4 * * * /usr/bin/ls /tmp > /dev/null
because auf cron only send's emails when it gets output you will never get an email anymore. But as you ask for an notification i don't know just one way. do the task in an extra script an filter there the output, so that the cron daemon only gets the output u wan't to have emailed. that's why programs often have the -q --quiet option which only prints errors. > Thanks for any help, hope i could help a little bit > Holly cya alex > -- > [email protected] mailing list -- [email protected] mailing list
