Re: aptitude in cronjobs

2004-05-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 18, 2004 at 12:01:23PM +0100, Stephen Patterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 18 May 2004 10:50:17 +0200, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > Is there a way to disable the dynamic screen updates aptitude uses, > > within cronjobs? > > What are you tryin

Re: aptitude in cronjobs

2004-05-18 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Tue, 18 May 2004 10:50:17 +0200, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Is there a way to disable the dynamic screen updates aptitude uses, > within cronjobs? What are you trying to do with aptitude in cronjobs? If its just updating your package lists (and I certainly wouldn't do an

Re: aptitude in cronjobs

2004-05-18 Thread Pete Clarke
Can you not just redirect the output to /dev/null ? I do this for several of my cron jobs... i.e. ... > /dev/null I was getting the same kind of thing, but once I added the redirection it stopped :-) HTH. Cheers, Pete. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

aptitude in cronjobs

2004-05-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
Is there a way to disable the dynamic screen updates aptitude uses, within cronjobs? I end up with cron mail resembling: ^MBuilding Dependency Tree... 0%^M^MBuilding Dependency Tree... 0%^M^MBuilding Dependency Tree... 0%^M^MBuilding Dependency Tree... 1%^M^MBuilding Dependency Tree..