Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 10:57:09 -0500 From: Peter Elsner <peter@servplex.com> To: Elliot Finley <efinleywork@efinley.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No output from periodic Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20030708105106.01789890@mail.servplex.com> In-Reply-To: <09a901c34567$72036900$b4be0ed0@elliotdevelop> References: <087c01c34560$7ed08e80$b4be0ed0@elliotdevelop> <20030708153145.GL87950@dan.emsphone.com>
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What you are seeing is an error condition... You should be able to put a redirect into crontab... Here's an example of one of my entries... It runs every 5 minutes, the dyndnss.pl script and sends output to /tmp/dyndnss.out AND any error messages (that's the 2>) to /tmp/dyndnss.err This works for me and I don't see any error messages. In the actual script, if something goes wrong, I have it email me. So I still get notified if the script fails, but I don't get any warnings from CRON. Hope that works. Peter */5 * * * * /cgi/dyndnss.pl >/tmp/dyndnss.out 2>/tmp/dyndnss.err At 09:41 AM 7/8/2003 -0600, you wrote: >Yeah, I tried that... Now I just get a blank email from cron. :) > >Anyone know how to make cron not send an email when there's no output? > >Elliot > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@allantgroup.com> >To: "Elliot Finley" <elliot@etv.net> >Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> >Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 9:31 AM >Subject: Re: No output from periodic > > > > In the last episode (Jul 08), Elliot Finley said: > > > I have a periodic that runs every 15 minutes. I have 5 scripts in > > > the directory that it processes. Most of the time, the 5 scripts > > > don't have to do anything, and thus don't have any output. When that > > > happens, periodic outputs 'No output from the 5 files processed'. > > > > > > Is there a way to make periodic not output anything so that I don't > > > get an email from cron every 15 minutes? > > > > Commenting out that line in /usr/sbin/periodic seems to be the way to > > go. > > > > -- > > Dan Nelson > > dnelson@allantgroup.com >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Anything below this line, is considered a signature line. If you do not know what a signature is within an email STOP here and do not read any further. Thank you. _________________________________________________________________________ Peter Elsner <peter@servplex.com> Vice President Of Customer Service (And System Administrator) 1835 S. Carrier Parkway Grand Prairie, Texas 75051 (972) 263-2080 - Voice (972) 263-2082 - Fax (972) 489-4838 - Cell Phone (425) 988-8061 - eFax I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say "Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?" -- Mike Godwin Unix IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are. System Administration - It's a dirty job, but somebody said I had to do it. If you receive something that says 'Send this to everyone you know, pretend you don't know me. Standard $500/message proofreading fee applies for UCE. (NOTE: UCE is Unsolicited Commercial Email also known as SPAM or junk mail).
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