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Date:      Thu, 08 Dec 2005 05:39:45 -0500
From:      Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cron
Message-ID:  <20051208053520.DDE0.GERARD@seibercom.net>
In-Reply-To: <200512080123.25189.akbeech@gmail.com>
References:  <200512080123.25189.akbeech@gmail.com>

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On Thursday, December 08, 2005 5:23:10 AM, Beecher Rintoul <akbeech@gmail.com>
Subject: cron
Wrote these words of wisdom:

> I have a script that is running in root's cron. The script runs successfully, 
> but it emails me on completion with info I don't need. Is there a command I 
> can add to have it not mail? I don't want to shut off all crons mail, just 
> that one job. The only thing I could find in the man pages deal with mail 
> globally.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Beech
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On 10/11/2005 5:29:42 PM, Gerard Replied:

Append this. sans quotation marks, to the end of the command:

">/dev/null 2>&1"

That should do the trick.

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Gerard Seibert
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