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Date:      Sun, 3 Jun 2001 15:36:38 -0400
From:      "Ryan Masse" <mail@max-info.net>
To:        "Trevin Chow" <tmchow@sfu.ca>
Cc:        "FreeBSD-Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Stop the logging of a cron job
Message-ID:  <00f901c0ec64$85dcd1e0$3200a8c0@Home>
References:  <20010603121231.R31880-100000@benny.geektank.org>

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i thought he meant the logs sent via email to root =\

Ryan


> 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.
> > >
> > >
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