Re: cron jobs overly verbose

On 8/11/15 12:12 PM, David Newman wrote:
> On 8/11/15 10:06 AM, Marc Fournier wrote:
>>
>> how are ppl setting up their cron jobs?   Getting one of these a day is annoying:
>>
>> 2015-08-04 03:00:00 Maia: [stats-snapshot] Updating stats history table.
>>
>> But, there doesn’t appear to be a way to turn that off *without* turning off any error messages that might also be generated … 
> 
> You can silence STDOUT and STDERR messages from cron jobs. The syntax
> differs per operating system. On FreeBSD, something like this at the end
> of the cron command will work:
> 
>> /dev/null 2>&1

Sorry, Thunderbird treated the redirect as a quote. Do this, without the
quote marks, at the end of a cron command in FreeBSD to silence output:

     '> /dev/null 2>&1'

dn

> 
> But, per your comment below, if there's a problem with a cron job, you
> probably want to know about it.
> 
>>
>> Or getting something like:
>>
>> Argument "2.49_01" isn't numeric in numeric ge (>=) at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/mach/5.20/forks.pm line 1570.
>>
>> Not a bug / problem …
> 
> It is a known bug in the perl forks.pm module, and a problem in that it
> causes the process-quarantine.pl script to terminate.
> 
> I posted a patch on this mailing list a few days ago:
> 
> http://www.renaissoft.com/cgi-bin/mailman/private/maia-users/2015-August/016668.html
> 
> dn
> 
>>
>> I want to know if there is a problem, but I only want those kind of email’s … not the ‘its running great’ messages …
>>
>> Anyone?
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