Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 22:46:19 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to silence cron? Message-ID: <20200911224619.4a134d23@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <b0f49812-4d0a-e301-3ef2-816431ae3dbe@nethead.se> References: <b0f49812-4d0a-e301-3ef2-816431ae3dbe@nethead.se>
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On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 15:11:49 +0200 Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > Hi, > > What would be the proper way to silence output from a php script > running under cron? I have tried variations of /dev/null and 2>&1 but > getting nowhere. > Have you tried SHELL=/bin/sh */5 * * * * su -m www -c "/usr/local/bin/php /usr/local/www/pathtoscript.php" >/dev/null 2>&1 the redirection has to take place under a bourne-compatible shell, so outside of the quotes. On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 19:44:17 +0100 tech-lists wrote: > I *think* you can set MAILTO: to /dev/null but I'm not 100% sure. But > if you can, I think it'll do what you want, if that is to have no > mail at all for www user. Crontab variable assignments apply to the lines below the assignment. It should be possible to divide the crontab into sections with different MAILTO values.
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