From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 3 12:16:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from benny.geektank.org (00-04-ac-38-0e-e8.bconnected.net [209.53.63.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6785337B407 for ; Sun, 3 Jun 2001 12:16:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tmchow@sfu.ca) Received: from localhost (tmchow@localhost) by benny.geektank.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f53JDbb31882; Sun, 3 Jun 2001 12:13:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tmchow@sfu.ca) X-Authentication-Warning: benny.geektank.org: tmchow owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 12:13:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Trevin Chow X-X-Sender: To: Ryan Masse Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Stop the logging of a cron job In-Reply-To: <00e801c0ec60$74c113c0$3200a8c0@Home> Message-ID: <20010603121231.R31880-100000@benny.geektank.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Are you sure this is supposed to stop the LOGGING of the cron job? By logging, I mean I don't want an entry in my cron logs saying the cron job was run. Doesn't adding "> /dev/null" just send standard output to /dev/null? On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Ryan Masse wrote: > add a > /dev/null to the end of the crontab line > > Ryan > > > > Hi all, > > > > Just wondering if there's a way to specify to NOT log a specific cron job > > in the logs? > > > > I have a process (fetchmail specifically) to download my email from > > another server every 2 mins. Needless to say I don't want this process in > > my cron logs. > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message