Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 00:50:02 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: script to process tar/cron output? Message-ID: <20010215005002.U62368@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> In-Reply-To: <20010214202923.A28510@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 08:29:23PM -0500 References: <20010214202923.A28510@blackhelicopters.org>
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On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 08:29:23PM -0500, Michael Lucas wrote: > Hello, > > We run tar each night out of cron. This results in a whole slew of > 2-meg email messages being sent to our root email readers. What is generating this? tar(1)? > Surely someone out there has/knows of a script that reads tar output > and looks for errors? I could easily enough write one to mail just > the last 20 lines or so of tar's output, but I'm not absolutely > certain that would catch all possible error conditions. tar(1) does not create output to stdout by default. Are you specifying the '-v' option? Don't. Error messages will still be reported. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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